purpura

See also: Purpura, purpurá, púrpura, purpurā, and purpură

English

Petechia and purpura on a human ankle.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/

Noun

purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)

1. (pathology) The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.

Derived terms

• purpuric
• purpurous

Translations

pathological condition

• Bulgarian: пурпура f (purpura)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫癜 (zh) (zǐdiàn)

• Polish: plamica f, purpura (pl) f
• Spanish: púrpura (es) f

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

Adjective

purpura

1. of the colour violet

Noun

purpura

1. the color violet

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /purˈpura/
• Hyphenation: pur‧pur‧a

Adjective

purpura (accusative singular purpuran, plural purpuraj, accusative plural purpurajn)

1. magenta (having a reddish-purple color)

Related terms

• viola

See also

Colors in Esperanto · koloroj (layout · text)

blanka	griza	nigra
ruĝa; karmezina	oranĝkolora; bruna	flava; kremkolora
limekolora	verda
cejanblua; grunblua	lazura	blua
violkolora; indiga	magenta; purpura	rozkolora

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• purppura

Noun

purpura

1. (pathology) purpura

Declension

Inflection of purpura (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		purpura	purpurat
genitive		purpuran	purpuroiden purpuroitten
partitive		purpuraa	purpuroita
illative		purpuraan	purpuroihin
		singular	plural
nominative		purpura	purpurat
accusative	nom.	purpura	purpurat
	gen.	purpuran
genitive		purpuran	purpuroiden purpuroitten purpurainrare
partitive		purpuraa	purpuroita
inessive		purpurassa	purpuroissa
elative		purpurasta	purpuroista
illative		purpuraan	purpuroihin
adessive		purpuralla	purpuroilla
ablative		purpuralta	purpuroilta
allative		purpuralle	purpuroille
essive		purpurana	purpuroina
translative		purpuraksi	purpuroiksi
instructive		—	purpuroin
abessive		purpuratta	purpuroitta
comitative		—	purpuroineen

Possessive forms of purpura (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	purpurani	purpuramme
2nd person	purpurasi	purpuranne
3rd person	purpuransa

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of pourpre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyʁ.py.ʁa/

Noun

purpura m (plural purpuras)

1. (pathology) purpura

Further reading

• “purpura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Ido

Etymology

From purpuro +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /purˈpur.a/

Adjective

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

Synonyms

• purpurea

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• purpura: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊrpʊrä]
• purpura: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]
• purpurā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.raː/, [ˈpʊrpʊräː]
• purpurā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]

Noun

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

1. the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
2. the color purple

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	purpura	purpurae
Genitive	purpurae	purpurārum
Dative	purpurae	purpurīs
Accusative	purpuram	purpurās
Ablative	purpurā	purpurīs
Vocative	purpura	purpurae

Descendants

• → Old English: purpuren, purple
  • Middle English: purpur, purpel, purple
    • English: purple
• → English: purpura (learned)
• → Asturian: purpura
• → Proto-Brythonic: *porfor
  • Middle Welsh: porffor
    • Welsh: porffor
• → Catalan: púrpura
• → Cornish: purpur
• Old French: [Term?]
  • French: pourpre
• → French: purpura (learned)
• Friulian: pùrpure
• → Galician: púrpura
• → Old High German: purpur, purpura
  • Middle High German: purpur
    • German: Purpur
• → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 (paurpura)
• → Old Irish: corcur
  • Middle Irish: corcair
    • Irish: corcra
• Italian: porpora
• → Middle Low German: [Term?]
  • Plautdietsch: purpur
• Old Occitan: porpra
  • Catalan: porpra
  • Occitan: porpra
• Old Spanish: pórpola, pórpora
• → Polish: purpura
• → Portuguese: púrpura
• → Romanian: purpură
• → Russian: пурпур (purpur)
• → Spanish: púrpura

Further reading

• purpura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• purpura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• purpura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• purpura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• purpura in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Latvian

Noun

purpura m

1. genitive singular form of purpurs

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Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

Descendants

• Middle High German: purpur
  • German: Purpur

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Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /purˈpu.ra/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: pur‧pu‧ra

Noun

purpura f

1. purple color
2. purple cloth
3. purple raiment
4. purple dye
5. (pathology) purpura

   Synonym: plamica

Declension

Declension of purpura

	singular	plural
nominative	purpura	purpury
genitive	purpury	purpur
dative	purpurze	purpurom
accusative	purpurę	purpury
instrumental	purpurą	purpurami
locative	purpurze	purpurach
vocative	purpuro	purpury

Derived terms

verbs

• purpurowieć
• spurpurowieć

 

noun

• purpurowiec

 

adjective

• purpurowy

 

Related terms

adverb

• purpurowo

 

Further reading

• purpura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• purpura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Verb

purpura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of purpurar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of purpurar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of purpurar.