amarellus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From amārus (“bitter, sour”) + -ellus (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]
Adjective
[edit]amārellus (feminine amārella, neuter amārellum); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | amarellus | amarella | amarellum | amarellī | amarellae | amarella | |
| genitive | amarellī | amarellae | amarellī | amarellōrum | amarellārum | amarellōrum | |
| dative | amarellō | amarellae | amarellō | amarellīs | |||
| accusative | amarellum | amarellam | amarellum | amarellōs | amarellās | amarella | |
| ablative | amarellō | amarellā | amarellō | amarellīs | |||
| vocative | amarelle | amarella | amarellum | amarellī | amarellae | amarella | |
Descendants
[edit]- Aragonese: amariello
- Old Leonese: *amariello, *amariellu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: amarelo
- Old Spanish: amariello
- Spanish: amarillo
References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “amarillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 233