purpura

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

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.

• purpurous

• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

purpura

1. of the colour violet

purpura

1. the color violet

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

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

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

• viola

• purppura

purpura

1. (medicine) purpura

From purpuro +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /purˈpur.a/

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

• purpurea

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

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

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

First declension.

• 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

purpura m

1. genitive singular form of purpurs

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

• Middle High German: purpur
  • German: Purpur

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.