purpura

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

Adjective

purpura

1. of the colour violet

Noun

purpura

1. the color violet

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. purple (having blue/red mixture that makes the color purple)

Alternative forms

• purppura

Noun

purpura

1. (medicine) purpura

Etymology

From purpuro +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /purˈpur.a/

Adjective

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊr.pʊ.ra]

Noun

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

1. the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
2. the color purple
3. vocative singular of purpura

purpurā

1. ablative singular of purpura

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, 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

Noun

purpura m

1. genitive singular form of purpurs

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

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.