purpuratus Latin · revision 33165

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc πορφύρα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pʊr.pʊˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pur.puˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''purpurātus''' (feminine purpurāta, neuter purpurātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|purpura|-ātus|t1=purple]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|purpura]] is [[bor|grc|πορφύρα|tr=porphúra|t=purple fish, purple dye]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) Priscian testifies that the second-last syllable is long.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Mostellaria'': a beautiful woman will be lovelier naked than dressed in purple.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it is a high official at a king's court, especially an eastern one, named from his purple dress: Cicero uses it in the ''Tusculan Disputations'' and, mockingly, of Gabinius as the courtier of a would-be king Lentulus in the speeches against Catiline;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Livy and Curtius also have the noun.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary records a Medieval Latin use for the children of a Byzantine emperor.^(Wiktionary) Stelten gives “clad in purple”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a woman dressed in purple.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a royal courtier.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of courtiers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – A Byzantine emperor's children.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Dressed in [[m|en|purple]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A high official at a royal, especially an eastern, court; a [[m|en|courtier]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The children of a [[m|en|Byzantine]] emperor.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[purpura]]

+ * [[purpureus]]

+ * [[purpurō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The TLL treats ''purpurātus'' “coloured purple” as a separate word, the participle of ''purpurō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}