amarellus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From amārus (“bitter, sour”) + -ellus (diminutive ending). Sense development perhaps via the description of those suffering a disease of the biles. First attested in an Iberian document dated to 919.[1]
Adjective[edit]
amārellus (feminine amārella, neuter amārellum); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | amarellus | amarella | amarellum | amarellī | amarellae | amarella | |
| Genitive | amarellī | amarellae | amarellī | amarellōrum | amarellārum | amarellōrum | |
| Dative | amarellō | amarellō | amarellīs | ||||
| Accusative | amarellum | amarellam | amarellum | amarellōs | amarellās | amarella | |
| Ablative | amarellō | amarellā | amarellō | amarellīs | |||
| Vocative | amarelle | amarella | amarellum | amarellī | amarellae | amarella | |
Descendants[edit]
- Aragonese: amariello
- Old Leonese: *amariellu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: amarelo
- Old Spanish: amariello
- Spanish: amarillo
References[edit]
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “amarillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233