Adjective: vermilion
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more vermilion |
| Superlative | most vermilion |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like vermilion
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis
3. Proto-Italic *wormis
4. Latin vermis
5. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
7. Proto-Italic *-elos
8. Proto-Italic *-kelos
9. Latin -culus
10. Latin vermiculus
11. Vulgar Latin *vermiclus
12. Old French vermeil
13. Old French vermeillonbor.
14. Middle English vermelioun
15. English vermilion
16. From Middle English vermelioun, vermyloun, vermylon, vermilun, from Old French vermeillon (“vermilion”), from vermeil, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye. Displaced native Old English bōcrēad.
Verbs referencing "vermilion"
Portuguese Adjectives
vermelho.