Middle French

Noun

escarlate f (plural escarlates)

1. a sort of fine, expensive cloth

Descendants

• English: scarlet (borrowed)
• French: écarlate

Old French

Noun

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

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

     Un mantel d'escarlate cort

     A coat of short fine, expensive cloth

Descendants

• English: scarlet (borrowed)
• Middle French: escarlate
  • French: écarlate
• Portuguese: escarlate (borrowed)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old French escarlate ‎(“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum ‎(“scarlet cloth”), via Persian سقرلاط ‎(saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط ‎(siqillāt, “scarlet cloth”), from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος ‎(sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iʃ.kɐɾ.ˈla.tɨ/
• Hyphenation: es‧car‧la‧te

Adjective

escarlate m, f ‎(plural escarlates, comparable)

1. scarlet (colour)

Noun

escarlate m (plural escarlates)

1. scarlet (colour)