vermello

• vermelho (reintegrationist)

13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vermello, from Vulgar Latin vermiculus (“purple, red”), attested as a color in the writings of Isidore of Seville, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), similar to coccinus (“purple”). Compare Portuguese vermelho, Spanish bermejo.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈmeɟo/ [beɾˈme.ɟʊ]

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• Rhymes: -eɟo
• Hyphenation: ver‧me‧llo

vermello m (plural vermellos)

1. red (colour)

   As mangas e medias eran de vermello.

   The sleeves and stockings were red.

vermello (feminine vermella, masculine plural vermellos, feminine plural vermellas)

1. red (colour)

   Synonyms: encarnado, roxo, rubio

• infravermello
• Vermello

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vermello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vermel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vermello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vermello”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vermello”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

vermello m (plural vermellos, feminine vermella, feminine plural vermellas)

1. alternative spelling of vermelho

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *vermiclus, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”).

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈmeʎu/

vermello

1. red
   • 1275, "Piece of a Testament"‎^[1]:

     5 varas de sarga vermella que lli compre

     5 Spanish yards of red serge which I bought from him

• Asturian: bermeyu, vermeyu, mermeyu
• Leonese: bermeyu
• Mirandese: burmeilho