amarelo

Galician

Alternative forms

• marelo

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Late Latin amarellus, diminutive of Latin amarus (“bitter, sour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈɾɛlo̝/

Adjective

amarelo m (feminine singular amarela, masculine plural amarelos, feminine plural amarelas)

1. yellow (colour)
   • 1326, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 64:

     Et vendemusuos o dito casal et herdade con pobrança de çinquo armentios, conuen a saber: huun boy ruuyo et outro boy amarello ruuyo, et huna vaca laura roxa et outra ruuya ruuyalua roxa, et outra sua filia de tal collor

     We sell you the aforementioned farm and property populated by five heads of cattle, which are: a reddish ox and another yellow reddish ox, and a dark red cow and another one reddish red, and her daughter of the same color

2. dark blonde; golden

Derived terms

• Amarela

Noun

amarelo m (plural amarelos)

1. yellow

References

• “amarelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “amarel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “amarelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “amarelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “amarelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin amarellus, diminutive of Latin amarus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈɾɛlo/

Adjective

amarelo m (plural amarelos, feminine amarela, feminine plural amarelas)

1. yellow
   • 13th century C.E., Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, cantiga 367 (facsimile):

     […] os coiros delas ſe fendiã / e agua amarela en saya.

     […] their skin split / and yellow fluid came out.

Descendants

• Galician: amarelo
• Portuguese: amarelo

See also

Colors in Old Portuguese · coores, colores (layout · text)
branco, blanco, alvo	gris	negro, preto
vermello	castanho	amarelo
	verde
		azur
	cardẽo	rosa

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Portuguese

amarelos

Etymology

From Old Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Late Latin amarellus, diminutive of Latin amarus (“bitter, sour”).

Cognate with Galician amarelo, Mirandese amarielho, Asturian and Leonese amariellu, Spanish amarillo and Aragonese amariello.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.mɐ.ˈɾɛ.lu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ma.ˈɾɛ.lu/, /a.ma.ˈɾɛ.lu/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧re‧lo

Adjective

amarelo m (feminine singular amarela, masculine plural amarelos, feminine plural amarelas, comparable)

1. yellow in colour

   Synonym: amarelado (but often suggesting partial yellowness)

2. (dated, of a person) Oriental (of East Asian descent)

   Synonyms: oriental; asiático (more generic, but usually refers to East Asians rather than other peoples of Asia); mongoloide (obsolete, now offensive)

3. (of a smile) wry; forced; unnatural

Inflection

Inflection of amarelo

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
positive	amarelo	amarela	amarelos	amarelas
comparative	mais amarelo	mais amarela	mais amarelos	mais amarelas
superlative	o mais amarelo amarelíssimo	a mais amarela amarelíssima	os mais amarelos amarelíssimos	as mais amarelas amarelíssimas
augmentative	—	—	—	—
diminutive	amarelinho	amarelinha	amarelinhos	amarelinhas

Noun

amarelo m (plural amarelos)

1. yellow (the colour)
2. (dated) Oriental (a person of East Asian descent)

   Synonyms: oriental; asiático (more generic, but usually refers to East Asians rather than other peoples of Asia); mongoloide (obsolete, now offensive)

3. (historical, syndicalism) a member of syndicalist movements that sought government assistance
4. (rare) egg yolk (the yellow part of the egg)

   Synonym: gema

5. (heraldry) or

Alternative forms

• amarello (obsolete)
• marelo

Derived terms

• amarelado
• amarelão
• amarelar
• amarelecer
• amarelinha
• amarelo-banana
• amarelo-canário
• amarelo de antimónio
• amarelo de Nápoles
• amarelo-limão
• amarelo-mostarda
• cartão amarelo
• ipê-amarelo
• Mar Amarelo
• verde e amarelo

 

Related terms

• amaro
• amargo

Verb

amarelo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of amarelar

References

• “amarelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “amarelo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.