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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English purpel, purpul, from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpurpəl/, /ˈpurpul/

Noun

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purpel (uncountable)

  1. purple fabric, especially an article of clothing
  2. purple, violet, crimson (colour)
  3. (heraldry) purple as a tincture
  4. (medicine, rare) A purple wound or sore.

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  • English: purple
  • Scots: purpill, purple

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Adjective

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purpel

  1. purple-coloured
  2. Dyed using a purple dye or pigment
  3. (heraldry) Of purple as a tincture

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See also

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Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
     whit      grey, hor      blak
             red; cremesyn, gernet              citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne              yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
             grasgrene              grene             
             plunket; ewage              asure, livid              blewe, blo, pers
             violet; inde              rose, murrey; purpel, purpur              claret