purpure

See also: Purpure and purpuré

English

Alternative forms

pu. or purp. in heraldic contexts.

Etymology

From Old French purpure (“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: Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture. — Brault, Early Blazon

Translations

purple colour on a coat of arms

• Dutch: purper (nl)
• French: pourpre (fr)
• German: Purpur (de)
• Italian: porpora (it)
• Macedonian: пурпурна f (púrpurna)
• Portuguese: púrpura (pt)

• Romanian: purpur or purpură
• Russian: пу́рпурный (ru) m (púrpurnyj) (цвет)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гримизна f

  Roman: grimizna (sh) f

• Spanish: púrpura (es)

Adjective

purpure

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

Translations

in blazon, of the colour purple

• Dutch: purper (nl)
• French: pourpre (fr)
• German: purpur
• Hungarian: bíbor (hu)
• Italian: porpora (it)
• Macedonian: пурпурен m (púrpuren)
• 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. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of purpurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of purpurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of purpurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of purpurar.