adj
Meaning 1
Somewhat purple in colour/color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
purplish
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
of a color intermediate between red and blue
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: purple, violet
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English purple Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English purplish From purple + -ish.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: moradenc — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Dutch: paarsig — somewhat purple in colour/color
- French: violâtre — somewhat purple in colour/color
- French: violacé — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Galician: aviñotado — somewhat purple in colour/color
- German: brombeerfarben — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Hebrew: סְגַלְגַּל (s'galgal) — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Hungarian: lilás — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Irish: scothchorcra — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Italian: violastro — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Italian: violaceo — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Polish: fioletowawy — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Portuguese: arroxeado, púrpureo — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Spanish: amoratado — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Spanish: cárdeno — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Spanish: purpúreo — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Spanish: púrpura — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Turkish: morumsu — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Turkish: morumtırak — somewhat purple in colour/color
- Welsh: porfforaidd — somewhat purple in colour/color
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