púrpura

Asturian

Etymology

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

Adjective

púrpura m sg (feminine singular púrpura, neuter singular púrpura, masculine plural púrpures, feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Adjective

púrpura m or f (masculine and feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

   Synonym: porpra

Noun

púrpura f (uncountable)

1. purple

   Synonym: porpra

Further reading

• “púrpura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “púrpura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “púrpura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “púrpura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)

See also

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: púr‧pu‧ra

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. a colour between purple and red
2. (medicine) purpura (marks on the skin due to subdermal bleeding)
3. Tyrian purple (a purple dye extracted from certain sea molluscs)
   1. any mollusc that produces Tyrian purple
   2. red fabric, dyed with Tyrian purple (a symbol of royal or ecclesiastic power)
      1. (metonymically) royal or ecclesiastic power

Derived terms

Adjective

púrpura (invariable)

1. of a colour between purple and red

   Synonyms: purpurino, purpúreo

Alternative forms

• púrpuro

Further reading

• “púrpura” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “púrpura” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “púrpura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “púrpura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “púrpura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “púrpura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

púrpura

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Cf. the inherited Old Spanish forms pórpola (“purple cloth”), pórpora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾpuɾa/
• Rhymes: -uɾpuɾa
• Syllabification: púr‧pu‧ra

Adjective

púrpura m or f (masculine and feminine plural púrpuras)

1. (heraldry) purpure
2. (anglicism) purple

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)

   Synonym: morado

2. (in a poetic sense) blood
3. Tyrian purple
4. (mollusk) purple dye murex (Murex brandaris)

   Synonyms: cañadilla, cañaílla

5. (pathology) purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Derived terms

See also

• Púrpura trombocitopénica trombótica on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

References

Further reading

• “púrpura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014