The Portuguese word for purple is
roxo
Portuguese Definition
| purple | |
| 1. Substantivo. roxo | |
| 2. Adjetivo. roxo | |
| 3. Verbo. ficar roxo |
Translations for purple and their definitions
| roxo | |
| 1. adj. having purple as its color | |
| 2. adj. being bruised | |
| 3. adj. (figuratively) overcome with envy; green | |
| está roxo de inveja - he is green with envy | |
| 4. n-m. purple (colour) |
| púrpura | |
| 1. n-f. a colour between purple and red | |
| 2. n-f. (medicine) purpura (marks on the skin due to subdermal bleeding) | |
| 3. n-f. Tyrian purple (a purple dye extracted from certain sea molluscs) | |
| 4. n-f. any mollusc that produces Tyrian purple | |
| 5. n-f. red fabric, dyed with Tyrian purple (a symbol of royal or ecclesiastic power) | |
| 6. n-f. # (metonym) royal or ecclesiastic power | |
| 7. adj. of a colour between purple and red |
| Violeta | |
| 1. Proper noun. given name, female, eq=Violet | |
| 2. adj. violet | |
| 3. n-f. violet (color) | |
| 4. n-f. violet (plant) | |
| 5. n-f. (Brazil) viola (musical instrument of the violin family) |
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