écarlate

See also: êcarlate

French

Etymology

From 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

• IPA^(key): /e.kaʁ.lat/

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Adjective

écarlate (plural écarlates)

1. scarlet

Derived terms

• sauge écarlate

Noun

écarlate f (plural écarlates)

1. scarlet (color)

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• écartela
• éclatera