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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">purple dye, purple-snail, purple clothes</b> (Sapph., Hdt., A.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">-ρη</b>.<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">πορφυρό-ζωνος</b> <b class="b2">with a purple girdle</b> (B.), <b class="b3">παμ-πόρφυρος</b> <b class="b2">consisting only of purple, all-purple</b> (Pi.), <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-πόρφυρος</b> <b class="b2">something purple</b> (Thphr., Arist.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 104f., 138); also <b class="b3">ἁλι-πόρφυρος</b> <b class="b2">of sea-purple, dyed with real purple, purple-red</b> (Od.); diff. Marzullo Maia 3, 132 ff., Il problema Omerico 255.<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">πορφύρ-εος</b>, Att. <b class="b3">-οῦς</b>, Aeol. <b class="b3">-ιος</b> <b class="b2">purple, purple dye</b>, of cloth(e)s, also of blood etc. (Il.; cf. on <b class="b3">πορφύρω</b>). 2. <b class="b3">-εύς</b> m. <b class="b2">purple-snail fisher</b> (Hdt., Arist.; Bosshardt 56) with <b class="b3">-ευτικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to πορφυρεύς (-ευτής?)</b> (E., Poll.; prob. after <b class="b3">ἁλιευ-τικός</b>; cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 63 n. 1, Chantraine Études 119), <b class="b3">-εύω</b> <b class="b2">to fish for purple-snails</b> (Philostr.), <b class="b3">-ευτής</b> m. = <b class="b3">-εύς</b> (Poll.). 3. <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f. <b class="b2">purple garment</b> (X.), also name of a bird (Ibyc.; Thompson Birds s. v.). 4. <b class="b3">-ιον</b> n. dimin. (Arist.), also <b class="b2">purpur cloth</b> (pap.). 5. <b class="b3">-εῖον</b> n. <b class="b2">purple-dye-house</b> (Str.). 6. <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> (<b class="b3">λίθος</b>), f. <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> <b class="b2">porphyry(-like), containing porphyry</b> (Plin., inscr., ostr.; Redard 59), <b class="b3">-ιτικός</b> <b class="b2">containing porphyry</b> (pap.). 7. <b class="b3">-ίων</b> m. <b class="b2">purple coot, Fulica porphyrion</b> (Ar., Arist.; Thompson s.v., Chantraine Form. 165). 8. <b class="b3">-ική</b> f. <b class="b2">purple-(toll) taxes</b> (pap. IIa). 9. <b class="b3">-ώματα τῶν ταῖς θεαῖς τυθέντων χοίρων τὰ κρέα</b> H. 10. <b class="b3">-ίζω</b>, also w. <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b2">to be purple coloured</b> (Arist., Thphr.). 11. PlN, e.g. <b class="b3">Πορφυρ- ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-εών</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Whether <b class="b3">πορφύρα</b> orig. indicated the purple-colour or the purple-snail, may remain open; for the priority of the first speaks decidedly the date of the attestations. Because of the technical nature of the word a loan from a Mediterranean language is clearly most probable (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 207), though up to now no convincing connection has been found (to be rejected Lewy Fremdw. 128). Old connection with <b class="b3">πορφύρω</b> (Curtius 303 w. lit.) does not convince factually, but secondary mutual inflence is undeniable. On <b class="b3">πορφύρα</b>, <b class="b3">-ύρεος</b>, <b class="b3">-ύρω</b> Vieillefond REGr. 51, 403 ff.; further Castrignanò Maia5, 1 18 ff. and Gipper Glotta 42, 39 ff. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[purpura]], from where [[purple]] etc.

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