scarlet
Of a bright red colourOf a bright red colour.
» Tom turned scarlet.
Tom wurde feuerrot.
Том густо покраснел.
Meaning
3 sensesOf a bright red colour.
scharlachrot, scharlach
а́лыйályj, багро́выйbagróvyj, багря́ныйbagrjányj
Sinful or whorish.
a scarlet woman
(Ireland)Blushing; embarrassed or mortified.
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Examples
16 sentencesTom turned scarlet.
ruТом густо покраснел.
deTom wurde feuerrot.
Is scarlet a fruit or a color?
I like scarlet red as a colour.
The petals were scarlet with streaks of gold.
Their faces looked inhuman, covered with scarlet and black paint.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of clothFrom Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlātum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively; compare especially the dialectal form سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ). The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye. The Arabic word may itself be derived from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτον (sigillâton), from Latin sigillātum (“a type of fabric”, literally “sealed; sealing”) .
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Forms
more scarlet, most scarlet| Comparative | more scarlet Lesson |
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| Superlative | most scarlet Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
11 synonymsWord family
29 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form