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1) "Purple" -- As to purple 1pur·ple
Pronunciation: 'p&r-p&l
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): pur·pler /-p(&-)l&r/; pur·plest /-p(&-)l&st/
Etymology: Middle English purpel, alteration of purper, from Old English purpuran of purple, genitive of purpure purple color, from Latin purpura, from Greek porphyra
1 : REGAL, IMPERIAL
2 : of the color purple
3 a : highly rhetorical : ORNATE b : marked by profanity Pronunciation Symbols
It has been suggested that Red-violet be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) An African Daisy of almost psychedelic purple The term purple in its widest sense refers to a wide variety of shades of color occurring between blue and red, this color is sometimes confused with violet. Purple is also used in a more specialized and restricted sense by chromaticians (color scientists) to indicate those colors between violet and red which are not spectral colors but mixtures of red and blue light. These colors are those colors which are along what is called the purple boundary (a straight line between violet and red) on the CIE chromaticity diagram. In an even more restricted sense, the term purple is used to describe the color between violet and magenta on the color wheel (this color, electric purple is shown below) and its light or dark shades . The term purple may also be used specifically to describe one of the specific shades of purple displayed below: The color violet (an important color between blue and red); the various colors regarded as the standard for purple over historical time: imperial purple, royal purple, generic purple, artist's purple and electric purple; the computer web color purples, purple (HTML/CSS color) and purple (X11 color); or other variations on the color purple such as psychedelic purple, pansy purple, aubergine and Tokyo purple.
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Purple on the CIE chromaticity diagram
- 3 Purple versus violet: violet is spectral, purple is extraspectral
- 4 Historical development of purple
- 4.1 Imperial Purple (Tyrian Purple) --Ancient Greece and Rome
- 4.2 Royal Purple--Medieval Europe
- 4.3 Generic Purple (Vulgar Purple) --1920s
- 4.4 Artists Pigment Purple (Red-Violet)--1930s
- 4.5 Electric Purple--2000s
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