púrpura
Asturian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Doublet of porpra.
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Further reading
- “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).
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpuʁ.pu.ɾɐ/ [ˈpuh.pu.ɾɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈpuʁ.pu.ɾɐ/ [ˈpuχ.pu.ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpuɻ.pu.ɾa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾɐ/
- Hyphenation: púr‧pu‧ra
Noun
púrpura f (plural púrpuras)
- a colour between purple and red
- (medicine) purpura (marks on the skin due to subdermal bleeding)
- Tyrian purple (a purple dye extracted from certain sea molluscs)
- any mollusc that produces Tyrian purple
- red fabric, dyed with Tyrian purple (a symbol of royal or ecclesiastic power)
- (metonymically) royal or ecclesiastic power
Adjective
púrpura (invariable)
- of a colour between purple and red
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Cf. the inherited Old Spanish forms pórpola (“purple cloth”), pórpora[1].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpuɾpuɾa/ [ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾpuɾa
- Syllabification: púr‧pu‧ra
Noun
púrpura f (plural púrpuras)
- purple (colour)
- Synonym: morado
- (in a poetic sense) blood
- Tyrian purple
- (mollusk) purple dye murex (Murex brandaris)
- Synonyms: cañadilla, cañaílla
- (pathology) purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
See also
Púrpura trombocitopénica trombótica on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
blanco | gris | negro |
rojo; carmín, carmesí | naranja, anaranjado; marrón | amarillo; crema |
lima | verde | menta |
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo | celeste, cerúleo | azul |
violeta; añil, índigo | magenta; morado, púrpura | rosa |
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “púrpura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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