De color rojo intenso.
Of a bright red colour.
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Llevaba un abrigo escarlata. — She wore a scarlet coat.
Las hojas del arce se volvieron escarlata de la noche a la mañana. — The maple leaves turned scarlet overnight.
¿No es demasiado llamativa esa cinta escarlata? — Isn't that scarlet ribbon too bright?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testEscarlata is a literary colour word in Spanish just as scarlet is in English — the two even share an origin, an Arabic-Persian name for a rich cloth that reached both languages through medieval trade.
It is invariable in gender: un vestido escarlata as much as una cinta escarlata, and never escarlato. And the disease follows the same pattern as in English: escarlatina, scarlet fever, is a noun of its own and has nothing to do with fever.
rojo red
The everyday colour. A red car is rojo; escarlata would sound like a poem.
carmesí crimson
Darker, towards blue — the colour of wine rather than of a poppy.
grana deep scarlet
An older word from the cochineal insect the dye was made of, still used in heraldry and in football-shirt descriptions.
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