aquarela

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aguarela (Portugal, chiefly)
• aquarella (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian acquarella.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.kwaˈɾɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.kwaˈɾɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.kwaˈɾɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a.kwɐˈɾɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: a‧qua‧re‧la

Noun

aquarela f (plural aquarelas) (chiefly Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. watercolour (pigment)
2. watercolour (painting)
3. watercolour (genre)

Further reading

• “aquarela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “aquarela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024