How did they name the color purple?

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∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word purpul which derives from the Latin purpura, in turn from the Greek word porphura, the name of a purple dye manufactured in classical antiquity from a mucus secreted by a snail.

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