How to Spell purple

purple

purple - adjective

  • Having a color between red and blue : of the color purple
  • Ornately and showily phrased or expressed
  • Marked by profanity
  • Having roughly equal levels of support for Democratic and Republican candidates or policies
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"a purple flower"

Etymology

Latin

Middle English purpel, alteration of purper, from Old English purpuran of purple, genitive of purpure purple color, from Latin purpura, from Greek porphyra

Word family

purplish