amarelo

• marelo

From Old Galician-Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Early Medieval Latin amārellus (“yellowish, pale”), derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

• IPA^(key): /amaˈɾɛlo/

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

1. yellow (colour)
2. dark blonde; golden

• Amarela

amarelo m (plural amarelos)

1. yellow

• “amarelo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “amarelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “amarelo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “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 Early Medieval Latin amārellus (“yellowish, pale”), derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

• IPA^(key): /amaˈɾɛlo/

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

1. yellow
   • 13th century CE, 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.

   • 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

• Galician: amarelo, marelo
• Portuguese: amarelo

• “amarelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “amarel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

• Rhymes: -ɛlu
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧re‧lo

From Old Galician-Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Early Medieval Latin amārellus (“yellowish, pale”), derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”). Compare Galician amarelo, Mirandese amarielho, Spanish amarillo.

amarelo (feminine amarela, masculine plural amarelos, feminine plural amarelas, comparable, comparative mais amarelo, superlative o mais amarelo or amarelíssimo, diminutive amarelinho)

1. yellow in colour

   Synonym: amarelado (but often suggesting partial yellowness)

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

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

3. (of a smile) wry; forced; unnatural
   • 2022, “a cor púrpura”, performed by Djonga:

     Uma pessoa me tocou sem eu querer / E ainda me convenceu que eu gostava / Molhou com seu suor minha pele infantil / E secou minhas lágrimas sempre que eu chorava / É, numa tarde chuvosa tudo começou / Um sorriso amarelo sempre que acabava

     Someone touched me without my consent / And even convinced me that I liked it / They wet my infantile skin with their sweat / And dried my tears whenever I cried / Eh, on a rainy afternoon everything began / A wry smile whenever it ended

amarelo m (plural amarelos)

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

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

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 present indicative of amarelar

• “amarelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “amarelo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.