escarlate
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Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
escarlate f (plural escarlates)
Descendants[edit]
- French: écarlate
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
escarlate oblique singular, f (oblique plural escarlates, nominative singular escarlate, nominative plural escarlates)
- a sort of fine, expensive cloth
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- Un mantel d'escarlate cort
- A coat of short fine, expensive cloth
Descendants[edit]
- → English: scarlet
- Middle French: escarlate
- French: écarlate
- → Portuguese: escarlate
- → Spanish: escarlate
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Persian سقرلاط (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”), from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum; or, alternatively, from Germanic.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: es‧car‧la‧te
Adjective[edit]
escarlate m or f (plural escarlates)
- scarlet (colour)
Noun[edit]
escarlate m (plural escarlates)
- scarlet (colour)
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