escarlate

Middle French

Noun

escarlate f (plural escarlates)

1. a sort of fine, expensive cloth

Descendants

• French: écarlate

Old French

Etymology

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Noun

escarlate oblique singular, f (oblique plural escarlates, nominative singular escarlate, nominative plural escarlates)

1. 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

• → English: scarlet
• Middle French: escarlate
  • French: écarlate
• → Portuguese: escarlate
• → Spanish: escarlate

Portuguese

Etymology

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.kaʁˈla.t͡ʃi/ [is.kaɦˈla.t͡ʃi], /es.kaʁˈla.t͡ʃi/ [es.kaɦˈla.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.kaʁˈla.t͡ʃi/ [is.kaɦˈla.t͡ʃi], /es.kaʁˈla.t͡ʃi/ [es.kaɦˈla.t͡ʃi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /is.kaɾˈla.t͡ʃi/, /es.kaɾˈla.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.kaʁˈla.t͡ʃi/, /eʃ.kaʁˈla.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.kaɻˈla.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.kɐɾˈla.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: es‧car‧la‧te

Adjective

escarlate m or f (plural escarlates)

1. scarlet (colour)

Noun

escarlate m (plural escarlates)

1. scarlet (colour)