aquarelle

See also: aquarellé

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).

Noun

aquarelle (plural aquarelles)

1. A watercolour (painting)
2. A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolor through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.

Translations

painting

• Finnish: akvarelli (fi), vesivärimaalaus (fi)
• Polish: akwarela (pl) f

• Spanish: acuarela (es) f

print

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French

Pronunciation

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• Homophones: aquarellent, aquarelles

Noun

aquarelle f (plural aquarelles)

1. aquarelle, watercolour

Verb

aquarelle

1. first-person singular present indicative of aquareller
2. third-person singular present indicative of aquareller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of aquareller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of aquareller
5. second-person singular imperative of aquareller

Descendants

• Greek: ακουαρέλα f (akouaréla)

Further reading

• “aquarelle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).