πορφύρα

• πορφύρρη (porphúrrhē) — Ionic

Traditionally derived from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “I redden”), itself related to φύρω (phúrō, “I mix”), Hittite 𒁍𒊒𒌓 (purut, “mud, soil”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhuráti, “have convulsions, sprawl”).^[1] However, Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the absence of connections in other Indo-European languages.

πορφῠ́ρᾱ • (porphŭ́rā) f (genitive πορφῠ́ρᾱς); first declension

1. purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)

   Synonym: κᾰ́λχη (kắlkhē)

2. a purple dye obtained from it
3. (in the plural) cloths of purple
4. purple stripe or other adornment of a garment

• Greek: πορφύρα (porfýra)
• → Latin: purpura (see there for further descendants)
• → Translingual: Porphyra

• “πορφύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πορφύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πορφύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

πορφύρα • (porfýra) f (plural πορφύρες)

1. murex (the mollusc)
2. Tyrian purple, royal purple (the dye, and its colour, obtained from the mollusc)

• (colour): πορφυρό n (porfyró)

• πορφυρός (porfyrós, “purple”, adj)

• Πορφύρα (χρωστική) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el