purpura

See also: Purpura, purpurá, púrpura, purpurā, and purpură

English

Petechia and purpura on a human ankle.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/

Noun

purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)

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

Derived terms

purpuric
purpurous

Translations

pathological condition

Bulgarian: пурпура f (purpura)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 紫癜 (zh) (zǐdiàn)
Polish: plamica f, purpura (pl) f
Spanish: púrpura (es) f
Turkish: purpura (tr)

Cebuano

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

Adjective

purpura

of the colour violet

Noun

purpura

the color violet

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

magenta (having a reddish-purple color)

Related terms

viola

Finnish

Alternative forms

purppura

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpurpurɑ/, [ˈpurpurɑ]
Rhymes: -urpurɑ
Syllabification^(key): pur‧pu‧ra

Noun

purpura

(pathology) purpura

Declension

Inflection of purpura (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		purpura	purpurat
genitive		purpuran	purpuroiden purpuroitten
partitive		purpuraa	purpuroita
illative		purpuraan	purpuroihin
		singular	plural
nominative		purpura	purpurat
accusative	nom.	purpura	purpurat
accusative	gen.	purpuran	purpurat
genitive		purpuran	purpuroiden purpuroitten purpurain^rare
partitive		purpuraa	purpuroita
inessive		purpurassa	purpuroissa
elative		purpurasta	purpuroista
illative		purpuraan	purpuroihin
adessive		purpuralla	purpuroilla
ablative		purpuralta	purpuroilta
allative		purpuralle	purpuroille
essive		purpurana	purpuroina
translative		purpuraksi	purpuroiksi
instructive		—	purpuroin
abessive		purpuratta	purpuroitta
comitative		—	purpuroineen

Possessive forms of purpura (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	purpurani	purpuramme
2nd person	purpurasi	purpuranne
3rd person	purpuransa

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of pourpre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pyʁ.py.ʁa/

Noun

purpura m (plural purpuras)

(pathology) purpura

Ido

Etymology

From purpuro +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /purˈpur.a/

Adjective

purpura

(obsolete) purple

Synonyms

purpurea

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

purpura: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊrpʊrä]

purpura: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]
purpurā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.raː/, [ˈpʊrpʊräː]

purpurā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]

Noun

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
the color purple

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	purpura	purpurae
Genitive	purpurae	purpurārum
Dative	purpurae	purpurīs
Accusative	purpuram	purpurās
Ablative	purpurā	purpurīs
Vocative	purpura	purpurae

Descendants

→ Old English: purpuren, purple
- Middle English: purpur, purpel, purple
  - English: purple
→ English: purpura (learned)
→ Asturian: purpura
→ Proto-Brythonic: *porfor
- Middle Welsh: porffor
  - Welsh: porffor
→ Catalan: púrpura
→ Cornish: purpur
Old French:
- French: pourpre
→ French: purpura (learned)
Friulian: pùrpure
→ Galician: púrpura
→ Old High German: purpur, purpura
- Middle High German: purpur
  - German: Purpur
→ Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 (paurpura)
→ Old Irish: corcur
- Middle Irish: corcair
  - Irish: corcra
Italian: porpora
→ Middle Low German:
- Plautdietsch: purpur
Old Occitan: porpra
- Catalan: porpra
- Occitan: porpra
Old Spanish: pórpola, pórpora
→ Polish: purpura
→ Portuguese: púrpura
→ Romanian: purpură
→ Russian: пурпур (purpur)
→ Spanish: púrpura

Latvian

Noun

purpura m

genitive singular form of purpurs

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura f

purple
purple cloth or raiment

Descendants

Middle High German: purpur
- German: Purpur

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /purˈpu.ra/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ura
Syllabification: pur‧pu‧ra

Noun

purpura f

purple color
purple cloth
purple raiment
purple dye
(pathology) purpura
Synonym: plamica

Declension

Declension of purpura

	singular	plural
nominative	purpura	purpury
genitive	purpury	purpur
dative	purpurze	purpurom
accusative	purpurę	purpury
instrumental	purpurą	purpurami
locative	purpurze	purpurach
vocative	purpuro	purpury

Derived terms

adjective

purpurowy

noun

purpurowiec

verbs

purpurowieć
spurpurowieć

Related terms

adverb

purpurowo

Spanish

Verb

purpura

inflection of purpurar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

purpura

English

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Cebuano

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Adjective

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adjective

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See also

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Ido

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

Further reading

Latvian

Noun

Old High German

Etymology

Noun

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

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Noun

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Further reading

Spanish

Verb