amarellus
Latin
Etymology
From amārus (“bitter, sour”) + -lus (diminutive ending). Sense development perhaps via the description of those suffering a disease of the biles. First attested in an Iberian document dated to 919.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Ibero-Romance) IPA(key): /amaˈɾɛllu/
Adjective
amārellus (feminine amārella, neuter amārellum); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)
- yellowish, pale
Descendants
- Aragonese: amariello
- Old Leonese: *amariellu
- Asturian: mariellu, amariellu
- Leonese: mariellu
- Mirandese: amarielho
- Old Portuguese: amarelo
- Galician: amarelo, marelo
- Portuguese: amarelo
- Old Spanish: amariello
- Spanish: amarillo
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “amarillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233