Actually, I just looked in my dictionary, and according to it, purple = "a mixture or red and blue" whereas violet = "a bluish purple." Which is more or less what my own idea is. So in English, purple generally refers to blue-red. It may be that in other European languages (like French, for example), a term like "violet" is used for what we call purple.
Okay. I will type in the meanings that refer to blue-red. I was confused because in Finnish "purppura" means red (not blue-red), so I'm not sure what "purpura" means for example in Spanish and Portuguese. I will correct the entries if I will find out that "purpura" doesn't mean "purple". (They are obviously the same word, but the meaning might have shifted.)
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Comments (4)
Risto Kupsala said
at 11:28 am on Nov 2, 2006
Does "purple" mean here violet (blue-red) or crimson (deep red)?
Jens Wilkinson said
at 1:11 pm on Nov 2, 2006
I think it should mean violet. You can rename the page if it makes it clearer.
Jens Wilkinson said
at 10:45 am on Nov 3, 2006
Actually, I just looked in my dictionary, and according to it, purple = "a mixture or red and blue" whereas violet = "a bluish purple." Which is more or less what my own idea is. So in English, purple generally refers to blue-red. It may be that in other European languages (like French, for example), a term like "violet" is used for what we call purple.
Risto Kupsala said
at 1:00 pm on Nov 3, 2006
Okay. I will type in the meanings that refer to blue-red. I was confused because in Finnish "purppura" means red (not blue-red), so I'm not sure what "purpura" means for example in Spanish and Portuguese. I will correct the entries if I will find out that "purpura" doesn't mean "purple". (They are obviously the same word, but the meaning might have shifted.)
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