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purpurate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pur-pu-rate
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a purple colour.

noun

A salt of purpuric acid.

Etymology

From Latin purpura (“the color purple”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Inflected Forms

more purpurate (comparative) most purpurate (superlative) purpurates (plural)

Synonyms

purple empurple

Questions

What does purpurate mean?
Of a purple colour.
Where does purpurate come from?
From Latin purpura (“the color purple”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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