purple
noun
[ ˈpəːp(ə)l ]
• a colour intermediate between red and blue.
• "the painting was mostly in shades of blue and purple"
• a crimson dye obtained from some molluscs, formerly used for fabric worn by an emperor or senior magistrate in ancient Rome or Byzantium.
purple
adjective
• of a colour intermediate between red and blue.
• "a faded purple T-shirt"
purple
verb
• make or become purple in colour.
• "Edmund's cheeks purpled"
Origin:
Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this.
