purper
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ˈpʏr.pər/
noun
Definitions
- purple, especially a reddish hue of purple colour
- (historical) The purple, imperial or royal power, in particular in relation to the Roman Empire
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch purper derived from Latin purpura (purple, purple dye, shellfish) derived from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (purple dye, purple-fish, purple fish, Tyrian purple color and dye, murex).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πορφύρα
Gloss
purple dye, purple-fish, purple fish, Tyrian purple color and dye, murex
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Chinese purple English
- Han purple English
- bepurple English
- empurple English
- impurple English
- nonpurple English
- purple English
- purple death English
- purple state English
- purpleheart English
- purplely English
- purpleness English
- purpletuft English
- purplewood English
- purplish English
- purply English
- purpura English
- purpuric English
- purpurogallin English
- purpurogenous English
- purpuromycin English
- unpurple English
- purpura Latin
- purpureus Latin
- purpuro Latin
- Purpur German
- porpora Italian
- purperreiger Dutch, Flemish
- purperslak Dutch, Flemish
- reiger Dutch, Flemish
- slak Dutch, Flemish
- pourpre French
- порфира Russian
- púrpura Spanish, Castilian
- πλατυπόρφυρος Ancient Greek
- πορφύρα Ancient Greek
- ἁλιπόρφυρος Ancient Greek
- ἐπιπόρφυρος Ancient Greek
- ὁλοπόρφυρος Ancient Greek
- púrpura Portuguese
- purpel Old English
- purple Old English
- purpuren Old English
- purple Middle English
- فرفير Arabic
- porpra Catalan, Valencian
- púrpura Catalan, Valencian
- púrpura Galician
- purpură Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πορφύρα Greek (modern)
- porffor Welsh
- purper Middle Dutch
- purpur Old High German
- purpura Old High German
- corcair Old Irish
- corcra Old Irish
- corcur Old Irish
- pourpre Norman
- 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 Gothic
- púrpura Asturian
- прапрѫда Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- purpuir Middle Irish
- perpol Bislama