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Purpura

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Pur′pu-ra

,
Noun.
[L., purple, purple fish: cf. F.
purpura
. See
Purple
.]
1.
(Med.)
A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.
Dunglison.
2.
(Zool.)
A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

Definition 2024

púrpura

púrpura

See also: purpura, purpurá, purpurā, and purpură

Asturian

Adjective

púrpura m sg ‎(feminine singular púrpura, neuter singular púrpura, masculine plural púrpures, feminine plural púrpures)

  1. purple

Catalan

Adjective

púrpura m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural púrpures)

  1. purple

Noun

púrpura f ‎(uncountable)

  1. purple

Synonyms

Galician

Noun

púrpura f ‎(plural púrpuras)

  1. purple (colour)

See also

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)
     vermello      verde      amarelo      ?      branco
     ?      ?      ?      ?      rosa
     ?      azul      laranxa      gris      ?
     negro      púrpura      castaño, marrón      ?      ciano

Portuguese

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

  1. a colour between purple and red
  2. (medicine) purpura (marks on the skin due to subdermal bleeding)
  3. Tyrian purple (a purple dye extracted from certain sea molluscs)
  4. any mollusc that produces Tyrian purple

Adjective

púrpura ‎(plural púrpura, comparable)

  1. of a colour between purple and red

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin purpura, probably borrowed. Cf. Old Spanish porpola ‎(“purple cloth”).

Adjective

púrpura m, f ‎(plural púrpuras)

  1. (heraldry) purpure
  2. (anglicism) purple

Noun

púrpura f ‎(plural púrpuras)

  1. purple (colour)
  2. (in a poetic sense) blood
  3. Tyrian purple
  4. (mollusk) purple dye murex (Murex brandaris)
  5. (pathology) purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Synonyms

  • (colour): morado
  • (mollusk): cañadilla, cañaílla

See also

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