écarlate
See also: êcarlate
French
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /e.kaʁ.lat/
Further reading
- “écarlate” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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