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purpureus
purpureus
Latin
Adjective
purpureus m (feminine purpurea, neuter purpureum); first/second declension
- purple, including reddish, violet, and brownish
- clothed in purple
- (figuratively) brilliant, shining, beautiful
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | purpureus | purpurea | purpureum | purpureī | purpureae | purpurea | |
| genitive | purpureī | purpureae | purpureī | purpureōrum | purpureārum | purpureōrum | |
| dative | purpureō | purpureō | purpureīs | ||||
| accusative | purpureum | purpuream | purpureum | purpureōs | purpureās | purpurea | |
| ablative | purpureō | purpureā | purpureō | purpureīs | |||
| vocative | purpuree | purpurea | purpureum | purpureī | purpureae | purpurea | |
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Descendants
References
- purpureus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- purpureus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “purpureus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.