escarlata
scarlet — a bright red, less dark than crimsonrojo vivo, menos oscuro que el carmesí
Comes from Arabic
سِقِلَّاط
siqillāṭ
“a fine wool or silk cloth, often dyed”«tela fina de lana o seda, a menudo teñida»
Arabic today says
قِرْمِزِيّ
qirmizī
The article
It came in without the article.
Arabic itself had taken it from Greek, which took it from Latin.
The story
It was a cloth before it was a color. Some derive it from Arabic siqillāṭ (itself from Latin sigillatus, "sealed cloth"); others from medieval Latin scarlata or Persian saqirlāṭ, without passing through the Arabic of al-Andalus.Primero fue una tela, no un color. Para unos viene del árabe siqillāṭ (a su vez del latín sigillatus, «tela sellada»); para otros, del latín medieval scarlata o del persa saqirlāṭ, sin pasar por el árabe de al-Andalus.
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