escarlate

== Middle French == === Noun === escarlate f (plural escarlates) a sort of fine, expensive cloth ==== Descendants ==== French: écarlate == Old French == === Etymology === Fom Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Persian سقرلاط (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”). === Noun === escarlate oblique singular, f (oblique plural escarlates, nominative singular escarlate, nominative plural escarlates) a sort of fine, expensive cloth ==== Descendants ==== → English: scarlet Middle French: escarlate French: écarlate → Portuguese: escarlate → Spanish: escarlate == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Persian سقرلاط (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”), from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum; or, alternatively, from Germanic. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧car‧la‧te === Adjective === escarlate m or f (plural escarlates) scarlet (colour) === Noun === escarlate m (plural escarlates) scarlet (colour) === Further reading === “escarlate”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “escarlate”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026