amarellus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom amārus (“bitter, sour”) + -ellus (diminutive ending). Sense development perhaps via the description of those suffering a disease of the biles. First attested in an Iberian document dated to 919.[1]
Adjective
editamārellus (feminine amārella, neuter amārellum); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | amarellus | amarella | amarellum | amarellī | amarellae | amarella | |
Genitive | amarellī | amarellae | amarellī | amarellōrum | amarellārum | amarellōrum | |
Dative | amarellō | amarellō | amarellīs | ||||
Accusative | amarellum | amarellam | amarellum | amarellōs | amarellās | amarella | |
Ablative | amarellō | amarellā | amarellō | amarellīs | |||
Vocative | amarelle | amarella | amarellum | amarellī | amarellae | amarella |
Descendants
edit- Aragonese: amariello
- Old Leonese: *amariello, *amariellu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: amarelo
- Old Spanish: amariello
- Spanish: amarillo
References
edit- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “amarillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233