amarelo

• marelo

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Late Latin amarellus, diminutive of Latin amarus (“bitter, sour”).

• IPA^(key): /amaˈɾɛlo̝/

amarelo m (feminine singular amarela, masculine plural amarelos, feminine plural amarelas)

1. yellow (colour)
   • 1326, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 64:

     Et vendemusuos o dito casal et herdade con pobrança de çinquo armentios, conuen a saber: huun boy ruuyo et outro boy amarello ruuyo, et huna vaca laura roxa et outra ruuya ruuyalua roxa, et outra sua filia de tal collor

     We sell you the aforementioned farm and property populated by five heads of cattle, which are: a reddish ox and another yellow reddish ox, and a dark red cow and another one reddish red, and her daughter of the same color

2. dark blonde; golden

amarelo m (plural amarelos)

1. yellow

• “amarelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “amarel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “amarelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “amarelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “amarelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Late Latin amarellus, diminutive of Latin amarus.

• IPA^(key): /amaˈɾɛlo/

amarelo m (plural amarelos, feminine amarela, feminine plural amarelas)

1. yellow
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 367 (facsimile):

     […] os coiros delas ſe fendiã / e agua amarela en saya.

     […] their skin split / and yellow fluid came out.

• Galician: amarelo
• Portuguese: amarelo

From Old Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Late Latin amarellus, diminutive of Latin amarus (“bitter, sour”).

Cognate with Galician amarelo, Mirandese amarielho, Asturian and Leonese amariellu, Spanish amarillo and Aragonese amariello.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.mɐ.ˈɾɛ.lu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ma.ˈɾɛ.lu/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧re‧lo

amarelo m (feminine singular amarela, masculine plural amarelos, feminine plural amarelas, comparable)

1. yellow in colour

   Synonym: amarelado (but often suggesting partial yellowness)

2. (dated, of a person) Oriental (of East Asian descent)

   Synonyms: oriental; asiático (more generic, but usually refers to East Asians rather than other peoples of Asia); mongoloide (obsolete, now offensive)

3. (of a smile) wry; forced; unnatural

amarelo m (plural amarelos)

1. yellow (the colour)
2. (dated) Oriental (a person of East Asian descent)

   Synonyms: oriental; asiático (more generic, but usually refers to East Asians rather than other peoples of Asia); mongoloide (obsolete, now offensive)

3. (historical, syndicalism) a member of syndicalist movements that sought government assistance
4. (rare) egg yolk (the yellow part of the egg)

   Synonym: gema

5. (heraldry) or

• amarello (obsolete)
• marelo

• amaro
• amargo

amarelo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of amarelar

• “amarelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “amarelo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2019.