different between scarlet vs crocein

English

Etymology

From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”). This was long thought to derive from Persian ??????? (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic ?????????? (siqill?t), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqill?t to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of Al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively. The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l?t
• Hyphenation: scar?let

Noun

scarlet (plural scarlets)

1. A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.

2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

   • All her household are clothed with scarlet.

Synonyms

• scarlet red

Translations

Adjective

scarlet (comparative more scarlet, superlative most scarlet)

1. Of a bright red colour.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Sinful or whorish.

3. (Ireland) Tragic or disappointing.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Verb

scarlet (third-person singular simple present scarlets, present participle scarleting, simple past and past participle scarleted)

1. To dye or tinge with scarlet.
   • 1632, John Ford, Love's Sacrifice

     The ashy paleness of my cheek / Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.

References

Anagrams

• Clarets, arclets, cartels, castler, castrel, clarets, crestal, lacerts, rectals

English

Etymology

See croceous, +? -in.

Noun

crocein (usually uncountable, plural croceins)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of several synthetic yellow or scarlet dyestuffs that are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.

Anagrams

• Creonic, cornice