Why do people use different words for the color purple?

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Usually colors are related to plants, like Violet and lily (violeta y lila). We also use 'morado' which comes from 'mora' (mulberry), 'vino' (wine) and last, but not least; púrpura, which is your every-day purple.

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I don´t have the correct answer. I´m affraid that it depends on the culture. You know that "violeta" means "violet" and "púrpura" means "purple"

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Thanks a bunch!

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there are different tones of the color, that's the reason of the names for the color, the tone you see give you the name.

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It's kind of like with English, we have different words that mean the same thing with different spellings - ax and axe.

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They are all different colors but people make the mistake to call the same color different names. It all depends where you are in the world and the culture involved.

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i thought purple was normally said as marado ...?