different between purpure vs purpura

English

Alternative forms

• (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Old French purpure (“purple”). Doublet of purple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??pj??/
• IPA^(key): /p??pj??/

Noun

purpure (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.

Translations

Adjective

purpure (not comparable)

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

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

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.

English

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.

Derived terms

• purpurous

Translations

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pur?pu?ra

Adjective

purpura

1. of the colour violet

Noun

purpura

1. the color violet

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pur?pura/
• Hyphenation: pur?pur?a

Adjective

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

1. magenta (having a reddish-purple color)

Related terms

• viola

See also

Finnish

Alternative forms

• purppura

Noun

purpura

1. (medicine) purpura

Declension

Ido

Etymology

From purpuro +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pur?pur.a/

Adjective

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

Synonyms

• purpurea

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• purpura: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pur.pu.ra/, [?p?rp??ä]
• purpura: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pur.pu.ra/, [?purpu??]
• purpur?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pur.pu.ra?/, [?p?rp??ä?]
• purpur?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pur.pu.ra/, [?purpu??]

Noun

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Noun

purpur?

1. ablative singular of purpura

Noun

purpura

1. vocative 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

Latvian

Noun

purpura m

1. genitive singular form of purpurs

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

Descendants

• Middle High German: purpur
  • German: Purpur

Spanish

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.