aquarelle

See also: aquarellé

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).

Noun

aquarelle (plural aquarelles)

1. A watercolour (painting)
   • 1902, Henry James, chapter II, in Flickerbridge‎^[1]:

     He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.

   • 1910, George Meredith, chapter VI, in Celt and Saxon‎^[2]:

     He wandered about the house, looking into several rooms, and only partially at rest when he discovered Caroline in one, engaged upon some of her aquarelle sketches.

2. A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.

Translations

painting — see also watercolour

• Finnish: akvarelli (fi), vesivärimaalaus (fi), vesivärityö
• French: aquarelle (fr) f
• German: Aquarell (de) n
• Greek: ακουαρέλα (el) f (akouaréla)
• Polish: akwarela (pl) f
• Portuguese: aquarela (pt) f
• Spanish: acuarela (es) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kwa.ʁɛl/

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• Homophones: aquarellent, aquarelles

Etymology 1

From obsolete Italian acquarella, modern acquerello.

Noun

aquarelle f (plural aquarelles)

1. aquarelle, watercolour

Derived terms

• aquareller
• aquarelliste

Descendants

• → English: aquarelle
• → Greek: ακουαρέλα (akouaréla)
• → Russian: акваре́ль (akvarélʹ)
  • → Georgian: აკვარელი (aḳvareli)
  • → Kazakh: акварель (akvarel)
• → Turkish: akvarel

Etymology 2

Verb

aquarelle

1. inflection of aquareller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “aquarelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.