yellow

Significado (Inglês)

Adj

1. Of a yellow hue.
2. (informal) Lacking courage.
3. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
4. Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
5. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
6. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
7. Synonym of high yellow
8. Related to the Liberal Democrats.
9. Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.

Noun

1. The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
2. The mid light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
3. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
4. One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
5. A yellow card.
6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.

Verb

1. To become yellow or more yellow.
2. To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

Sinônimos

green

light brown

golden

chicken

🐔

xanthous

amber

orange

🍊

yolk

waxen

fearful

😨

yellowed

yellowish

craven

timid

icteric

jaundiced

yellowness

faint-hearted

color yellow

pale

white-livered

cream

chickenhearted

spineless

light green

pusillanimous

red

yellow-bellied

scandalmongering

sensationalistic

blue

bright

brown

cowardly

be yellow

coward

lily-livered

cream-colored

gold-coloured

lead oxide

saffron-colored

turn color

yellow ochre

greenish yellow

fawn colour

vitelline

brilliant in hue

yellow light

weak kneed

boggler

lily livered

saffrony

cream-colored

cream-coloured

bashful

bird of paradise

colored

dark

dark yellow

dastard

dastardly

egg yolk

fainthearted

fox

🦊

funky

gold

grey

gutless

honeycomb

Huang He

litharge

luteous

mealymouthed

ochre

or

paint

pine

saffron

sheepish

shy

skittish

skulker

tan

timorous

turn

vitellus

white livered

xanthic

chicken hearted

become yellow

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈjɛl.əʊ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: yelow

Herdado de inglês arcaico: ġeolwe

Herdado de inglês arcaico: ġeolu

Cognato com galês: gwelw

Cognato com latim: helvus

Cognato com irlandês: geal

Cognato com italiano: giallo

Cognato com lituano: žalias

Cognato com grego arcaico: χλωρός

Cognato com persa: زرد

Cognato com sânscrito: हरि

Cognato com russo: жёлтый

Cognato com russo: зелёный

Cognato com alemão: gelb

Cognato com holandês: geel

Herdado de inglês arcaico: ġeolwian

In summary

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

Frases

Do not cross the yellow line .

Não cruze a linha amarela.

A young girl is mixing something yellow in a bowl .

Uma jovem está misturando algo amarelo em uma tigela.

Specter flees , and Hikaru manages to downsize and capture Yellow .

Specter foge, e Hikaru consegue reduzir o tamanho e capturar amarelo.