écarlate
See also: êcarlate
French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), via Persian سقرلاط (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”) from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editécarlate (plural écarlates)
Derived terms
editNoun
editécarlate f (plural écarlates)
- scarlet (color)
Further reading
edit- “ecarlate” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “écarlate” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “écarlate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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