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Purpura
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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
purpura
purpura
English
Petechia and purpura on a human ankle.
Noun
purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)
- (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
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /purˈpura/
- Hyphenation: pur‧pur‧a
Adjective
purpura (accusative singular purpuran, plural purpuraj, accusative plural purpurajn)
- purple (having blue/red mixture that makes the color purple)
Related terms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Noun
purpura
Declension
| Inflection of purpura (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | purpura | purpurat | |
| genitive | purpuran | purpuroiden purpuroitten |
|
| partitive | purpuraa | purpuroita | |
| illative | purpuraan | purpuroihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | purpura | purpurat | |
| accusative | nom. | purpura | purpurat |
| gen. | purpuran | ||
| genitive | purpuran | purpuroiden purpuroitten purpurainrare |
|
| partitive | purpuraa | purpuroita | |
| inessive | purpurassa | purpuroissa | |
| elative | purpurasta | purpuroista | |
| illative | purpuraan | purpuroihin | |
| adessive | purpuralla | purpuroilla | |
| ablative | purpuralta | purpuroilta | |
| allative | purpuralle | purpuroille | |
| essive | purpurana | purpuroina | |
| translative | purpuraksi | purpuroiksi | |
| instructive | — | purpuroin | |
| abessive | purpuratta | purpuroitta | |
| comitative | — | purpuroineen | |
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), of Semitic origin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊr.pʊ.ra]
Noun
purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension
- the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
- the color purple
- vocative singular of purpura
purpurā f
- ablative singular of purpura
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | purpura | purpurae |
| genitive | purpurae | purpurārum |
| dative | purpurae | purpurīs |
| accusative | purpuram | purpurās |
| ablative | purpurā | purpurīs |
| vocative | purpura | purpurae |
Descendants
References
- 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)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “purpura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- purpura in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old High German
Etymology
Noun
purpura f