écarlate

See also: êcarlate

French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian سقرلاط (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (siqillāt, “scarlet cloth”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (textum) sigillātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.kaʁ.lat/

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Adjective

écarlate (plural écarlates)

1. scarlet

Noun

écarlate f (plural écarlates)

1. scarlet (color)

Further reading

• “écarlate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• écartela
• éclatera