escarlate

escarlate f (plural escarlates)

1. a sort of fine, expensive cloth

• French: écarlate

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”).

escarlate oblique singular, f (oblique plural escarlates, nominative singular escarlate, nominative plural escarlates)

1. a sort of fine, expensive cloth
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Un mantel d'escarlate cort

     A coat of short fine, expensive cloth

• → English: scarlet
• Middle French: escarlate
  • French: écarlate
• → Portuguese: escarlate
• → Spanish: escarlate

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.

• Hyphenation: es‧car‧la‧te

escarlate m or f (plural escarlates)

1. scarlet (colour)

escarlate m (plural escarlates)

1. scarlet (colour)