purpure

See also: Purpure and purpuré

English

Alternative forms

• (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Old French purpure (“purple”). Doublet of purple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpjʊə/
• IPA^(key): /pɚˈpjʊɹ/

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Noun

purpure (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
   • 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:

     Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.

   purpure:  

Translations

purple colour on a coat of arms

• Catalan: porpra (ca) f
• Dutch: purper (nl)
• Finnish: purppura (fi)
• French: pourpre (fr)
• German: Purpur (de)
• Italian: porpora (it)
• Macedonian: пурпурна f (purpurna)

• Portuguese: púrpura (pt)
• Romanian: purpur (ro) m, purpură (ro) f
• Russian: пу́рпурный (цвет) m (púrpurnyj (cvet))
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гримизна f

  Roman: grimizna (sh) f

• Spanish: púrpura (es)

Adjective

purpure (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

Translations

in blazon, of the colour purple

• Danish: purpur (da)
• Dutch: purper (nl)
• Finnish: purppura (fi)
• French: pourpre (fr)
• German: purpur
• Hungarian: bíbor (hu)
• Italian: porpora (it)
• Macedonian: пурпурен m (purpuren)
• Polish: purpurowy (pl)

• Portuguese: púrpura (pt)
• Romanian: purpuriu (ro)
• Russian: пу́рпурный (ru) (púrpurnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гримизна f

  Roman: grimizna (sh) f

• Spanish: púrpura (es)
• Swedish: purpur (sv)

See also

• Appendix:Colors

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Spanish

Verb

purpure

1. inflection of purpurar:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative