amarelo – Portuguese adjective declension

Portuguese adjective forms of amarelo

Adjective: amarelo

Hyphenation:
Singular m.amarelo
Singular f.amarela
Plural m.amarelos
Plural f.amarelas

Sample Sentences

  • 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) [2022, “a cor púrpura [the color purple]”, in O Dono do Lugar [The Owner of the Place], performed by Djonga, Mineiro:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃mósder.
3. Latin amārus
4. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
5. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
6. Proto-Italic *-elos
7. Latin -lus
8. Latin -ellus
9. Early Medieval Latin amārellus
10. Old Galician-Portuguese amarelo
11. Portuguese amarelo
12. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amarelo (“yellow”), from Early Medieval Latin amārellus (“yellowish, pale”). Compare Galician amarelo, Fala amarelu, Mirandese amarielho, Spanish amarillo. See: Galician Adjectives 'amarelo', Spanish Adjectives 'amarillo'.

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