purpure
/pəˈpjʊə/noun, adjective
purpure is a noun meaning “A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-R-P-U-R-E, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does purpure mean?
noun
- 1
A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
adjective
- 1
In blazon, of the colour purple.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce purpure?
- /pəˈpjʊə/
- /pɚˈpjʊɹ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-purpure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is purpure?
Purpure appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate purpure?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of purpure: pu., purp..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Purpure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does purpure come from?
From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).