aquarelle

See also: aquarellé

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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), vesivärityö
• French: aquarelle (fr) f
• Greek: ακουαρέλα (el) f (akouaréla)

• Polish: akwarela (pl) f
• Portuguese: aquarela (pt) f
• Spanish: acuarela (es) f

print

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kwa.ʁɛl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: aquarellent, aquarelles

Etymology 1

From obsolete Italian acquarella, modern acquerello.

Noun

aquarelle f (plural aquarelles)

1. aquarelle, watercolour

Derived terms

• aquareller
• aquarelliste

Descendants

• → English: aquarelle
• → Greek: ακουαρέλα (akouaréla)
• → Russian: акваре́ль (akvarélʹ)
  • → Kazakh: акварель (akvarelʹ)

Etymology 2

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

Further reading

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