scarletの意味・使い方・発音

scarlet

英 ['skɑːlət] 美 ['skɑrlɪt]

緋色

古フランス語のescarlate「赤い布」、ラテン語のscarlatum「赤い布」、ペルシア語のsaqerlat「赤い布」、特に鮮やかな赤色の布から。この言葉から、有名なハリウッドの美女スカーレット?ヨハンソンのように、染物師や布商人のスカーレットという名字が生まれた。

scarlet: scarlet: [13] Scarlet originally denoted a sumptuous sort of cloth, which came in various colours, not just red. Red was evidently the commonest colour, however, for by the 15th century we find the word scarlet being used for ‘red’. It was borrowed from Old French escarlate, but where that came from is not known (some have derived it from Persian saqalāt ‘rich cloth’, but this has not been conclusively established).
scarlet (n.): mid-13c., "rich cloth" (often, but not necessarily, bright red), from a shortened form of Old French escarlate "scarlet (color), top-quality fabric" (12c., Modern French écarlate), from Medieval Latin scarlatum "scarlet, cloth of scarlet" (also source of Italian scarlatto, Spanish escarlate), probably via a Middle Eastern source (compare Arabic siqillat "fine cloth"), from Medieval Greek and ultimately from Late Latin sigillatus "clothes and cloth decorated with small symbols or figures," literally "sealed," past participle of sigillare, from the root of sign (n.).

In English as the name of a color, attested from late 14c. As an adjective from c. 1300. Scarlet lady, etc. (Isa. i:18, Rev. xvii:1-5) is from notion of "red with shame or indignation." Scarlet fever is from 1670s, so called for its characteristic rash. Scarlet oak, a New World tree, attested from 1590s. Scarlet letter traces to Hawthorne's story (1850). German Scharlach, Dutch scharlaken show influence of words cognate with English lake (n.2).

1. She turned scarlet from embarrassment，once she realized what she had done.: 彼女は自分が何をしているのかに気づいて顔を赤くした。

2.Her scarlet lipstick emphasized the whiteness of her teeth.: 真っ赤な口紅が歯の白さを引き立てている。

4. Scarlet fever is highly contagious.

スカーレット熱は接触感染性が強い。