"purported" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /pəɹˈpɔɹ.tɪd/ [US], /pəɹˈpoʊɹ.tɪd/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purpoted.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: From purport + -ed. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|purport|-ed|text=+|tree=1}} From purport + -ed. Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} purported
  1. Supposed, or assumed to be. Translations (Supposed): supposé [masculine] (French), putatif [masculine] (French), angeblich (German), suposto (Portuguese), pretenso (Portuguese), предполагаемый (predpolagajemyj) [masculine] (Russian), предположительный (predpoložitelʹnyj) [masculine] (Russian), supuesto (Spanish), presunto (Spanish), påstådd (Swedish), gibi görünmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-purported-en-adj-h~wtZP4u Disambiguation of 'Supposed': 91 5 4
  2. Normally assumed to be.
    Sense id: en-purported-en-adj-BlvX7-sv
  3. Said or claimed by some individuals to be real or true or to have happened, although this may not be the case.
    Sense id: en-purported-en-adj-p0yXusya Categories (other): English entries referencing ambiguous etymons, English entries referencing missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ed, Entries with translation boxes, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries referencing ambiguous etymons: 15 8 64 12 Disambiguation of English entries referencing missing etymons: 13 20 56 11 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 15 11 59 15 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 14 7 65 14 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 9 77 6 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ed: 27 14 37 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 4 79 9 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 14 6 66 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 4 80 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 3 83 7 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 13 6 67 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 7 65 14 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 8 68 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 15 9 65 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 12 6 69 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 6 67 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 13 8 70 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 16 9 65 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: purportedly

Verb [English]

IPA: /pəɹˈpɔɹ.tɪd/ [US], /pəɹˈpoʊɹ.tɪd/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purpoted.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: From purport + -ed. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|purport|-ed|text=+|tree=1}} From purport + -ed. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} purported
  1. simple past and past participle of purport Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: purport
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.