# purpureal
## English
### Etymology

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:
* 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
* from Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”), from πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā) (see above) + -εος (-eos).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /pɝˈp(j)ʊ.ɹi.əl/
* Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧re‧al

### Adjective

purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)
* (literary, poetic) Of a purple colour.
    Synonyms: purple, (obsolete) purpuraceous, (archaic, poetic) purpurate, (obsolete) purpure, (obsolete) purpurean, purpureous, (rare) purpurine
** 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:[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?
** 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:[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.
** 1815, William Wordsworth, “Laodamia”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 229: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; [...]
** 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:But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]
** 1973, Derek Walcott, “[Homage to Gregorias] Chapter 10”, in Another Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 63: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."

#### Related terms

* purple
* purply
* purpura
* purpuraceous (obsolete)
* purpurare (obsolete)
* purpurascent, purpurescent
* purpurate
* purpurated (obsolete)
* purpure (some senses obsolete)
* purpurean (obsolete)
* purpured (obsolete)
* purpurein
* purpureous
* purpureously (obsolete, rare)
* purpuress (obsolete)
* purpuric
* purpuriferous (obsolete)
* purpurin
* purpurine (rare)
* purpuriparous (obsolete, rare)
* purpurisse (historical, rare)
* purpurissum (historical)
* purpurite
* purpurize (obsolete)
* purpurogallin
* purpuroid
* purpurous (obsolete)

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “purpureal, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2007; “purpureal, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* purple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia