escarlata
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic إشْكِرْلاطَ (ʔiškirlāṭa), from Arabic سِقِلّاط (siqillāṭ), from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), from Latin textum sigillātum (literally “sealed text”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escarlata f (plural escarlatas)
- scarlet (color)
Adjective
[edit]escarlata m or f (masculine and feminine plural escarlata or escarlatas)
- scarlet (color)
Usage notes
[edit]- Just like rosa, the adjective escarlata does not undergo inflection in gender. Thus, whether modifying a masculine or feminine noun, one should use escarlata and never *escarlato.
References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan (1961), “escarlata”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 242
Further reading
[edit]- “escarlata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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