See purpureal on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "purpureus",
"t": "purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful"
},
"expansion": "Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "adjective",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "πορφῠ́ρᾱ",
"t": "purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "πορφύρεος",
"t": "of a purple colour"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Purpureus is either derived:\n* from purpura (“the colour purple; purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)”) (from Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”), from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to redden”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); or\n* from Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”), from πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā) (see above) + -εος (-eos).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more purpureal",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most purpureal",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pur‧pu‧re‧al"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -al",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Purples",
"orig": "en:Purples",
"parents": [
"Colors",
"Light",
"Vision",
"Energy",
"Senses",
"Nature",
"Perception",
"All topics",
"Body",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1744, [Mark Akenside], “Book the First”, in The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 296–298:",
"text": "[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1815, William Wordsworth, “Laodamia”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 229:",
"text": "Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1893, Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume I (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 112:",
"text": "But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Derek Walcott, “[Homage to Gregorias] Chapter 10”, in Another Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 63:",
"text": "Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's \"Our Lady of the Rocks.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a purple colour."
],
"id": "en-purpureal-en-adj-E~fLYJ51",
"links": [
[
"purple",
"purple#Noun"
],
[
"colour",
"colour#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, poetic) Of a purple colour."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "purple"
},
{
"word": "purply"
},
{
"word": "purpura"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuraceous"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurare"
},
{
"word": "purpurascent"
},
{
"word": "purpurescent"
},
{
"word": "purpurate"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurated"
},
{
"english": "some senses obsolete",
"word": "purpure"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurean"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpured"
},
{
"word": "purpurein"
},
{
"word": "purpureous"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "purpureously"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuress"
},
{
"word": "purpuric"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuriferous"
},
{
"word": "purpurin"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "purpurine"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "purpuriparous"
},
{
"tags": [
"historical",
"rare"
],
"word": "purpurisse"
},
{
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"word": "purpurissum"
},
{
"word": "purpurite"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurize"
},
{
"word": "purpurogallin"
},
{
"word": "purpuroid"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurous"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "purple"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuraceous"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic",
"poetic"
],
"word": "purpurate"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpure"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurean"
},
{
"word": "purpureous"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "purpurine"
}
],
"tags": [
"literary",
"poetic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(literary, poetic) of a purple colour — see also purple",
"word": "violâtre"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɝˈp(j)ʊ.ɹi.əl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "purpureal"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "purpureus",
"t": "purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful"
},
"expansion": "Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "adjective",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "πορφῠ́ρᾱ",
"t": "purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "πορφύρεος",
"t": "of a purple colour"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Purpureus is either derived:\n* from purpura (“the colour purple; purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)”) (from Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”), from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to redden”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); or\n* from Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”), from πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā) (see above) + -εος (-eos).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more purpureal",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most purpureal",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pur‧pu‧re‧al"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "purple"
},
{
"word": "purply"
},
{
"word": "purpura"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuraceous"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurare"
},
{
"word": "purpurascent"
},
{
"word": "purpurescent"
},
{
"word": "purpurate"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurated"
},
{
"english": "some senses obsolete",
"word": "purpure"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurean"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpured"
},
{
"word": "purpurein"
},
{
"word": "purpureous"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "purpureously"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuress"
},
{
"word": "purpuric"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuriferous"
},
{
"word": "purpurin"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "purpurine"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "purpuriparous"
},
{
"tags": [
"historical",
"rare"
],
"word": "purpurisse"
},
{
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"word": "purpurissum"
},
{
"word": "purpurite"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurize"
},
{
"word": "purpurogallin"
},
{
"word": "purpuroid"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurous"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English literary terms",
"English poetic terms",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -al",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"en:Purples"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1744, [Mark Akenside], “Book the First”, in The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 296–298:",
"text": "[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1815, William Wordsworth, “Laodamia”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 229:",
"text": "Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1893, Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume I (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 112:",
"text": "But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Derek Walcott, “[Homage to Gregorias] Chapter 10”, in Another Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 63:",
"text": "Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's \"Our Lady of the Rocks.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a purple colour."
],
"links": [
[
"purple",
"purple#Noun"
],
[
"colour",
"colour#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, poetic) Of a purple colour."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "purple"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpuraceous"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic",
"poetic"
],
"word": "purpurate"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpure"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "purpurean"
},
{
"word": "purpureous"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "purpurine"
}
],
"tags": [
"literary",
"poetic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-purpureal.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɝˈp(j)ʊ.ɹi.əl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(literary, poetic) of a purple colour — see also purple",
"word": "violâtre"
}
],
"word": "purpureal"
}
Download raw JSONL data for purpureal meaning in All languages combined (6.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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.