Colours - Romance languages compared to Latin 

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Looks like Romanian has more words that kept the original form. It is unbelievable how it survived in the middle of slavic, uralic languages for so long.

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Kinda strange how amarillo and amarelo came from the word Latin word amarus (bitter/sad), when yellow today is associated as a bright and happy color for its sunshine-like qualities. On that note, the word for bitter in Spanish is amargo, which I'm mind-blown that it is related to the word amarillo. Makes sense now.

Spain: Verde. Italy: Verde. Portugal: Verde. Romania: Verde. France: VeRt.

It's surprizing that Romanian preserved "alb" for "white" and the rest of Romance languages have replaced it by "blank".

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1:12 In Portuguese we also have "rubro" which is synonymous with red and is more similar to the others. But we usually use it to talk about the color of a team, like "Rubro-negro" (red-black).

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In Portugal, very few people say marrom. Most people will say castanha which comes from castaneus which means chessnut. By the way it's very common to hear "cor-de-laranja", "cor-de-rosa", "cor-de-castanha" etc which means "color of orange", "color of rose" etc for the situations where the word comes from a flower or a fruit.

in portuguese "marrom" is more used in brasil, in Portugal we usually use " castanho"

In Moldova we also use 'cafeniu' for brown, meaning - coffee colored.

In Italian we also have: “Vermiglio” and “Scarlatto” for red but they are not wildly used. “Celeste” is another common shade of light blue (specifically the color of the sky). “Viridio” is a latinism for green. “Moro” and “Bruno” respectively means black and brown and are used a lot to describe skin complexions or hair color. These words are not used a lot in everyday conversations, but they are used quite a lot in art. I clearly remember my art teacher in high-school telling me “There are no “marroni” (browns), only “bruni” and “terre” (earths).”

I wanted to do something like this for a long time, I'm happy someone else did it cause I don't have the editing qualities to do it. Great video!!

In Italian the word Lume can be expressed to say "Light". For example "Lume di candela" means "Candlelight"

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In french and many languages, "albinos" (a disease preventing the skin from having pigmentation, making it extremely white) directly comes from the latin "albus"

From the latin "Galbinus" we now have (in romanian) "Galbenus" which is essentially the core of an egg. Yes, it's yellow :)

In Romania we are using even "mov" for purple color. I think this is the most commonly.🤗

Just a few corrections. For the color gray, in Portugal we don't say gris at all, and we sometimes use cinza but it's not that common. The most common way to say it is cinzento. For the color brown, here in Portugal we don't say Marrom at all. That's how Brazilians say it. Here in Portugal the color is called Castanho.

Great comparison! Romanian also has vânăt for (dark) blue, from Latin venetus; cenușiu for gray (ash-like) from Latin cinis, ashes; and for brown there is also castaniu (chestnut-like) from Latin castanea.

in Romanian we almost always use "mov" for purple.

No Brasil costumamos dizer marrom, mas usamos castanho para dizer as cores dos olhos e dos cabelos, por exemplo. Dizemos cinza e não gris, mas usamos a palavra grisalho para também se referir a cor de cabelos parcialmente brancos.

in French speaking Canada we say almost exclusively "mauve" for purple, and for "light in colour" we say "pâle". we use "clair" in relation to luminosity,

Funny thing about the word “blue” in Latin “Caeruleus”, the word for “sky” in Romanian is “cer”.

In romanian, for purple, we mostly use the word "mov". The words mentioned in the video aren't incorrect, however they aren't used as much as "mov".

So both our countries (France and Romania) agreed on having the same pronounciation for Turquoise/Turcoaz

I could watch this channel the whole day...I love these comparisons

Ad multos annos! (Latin) - La mulți ani! ( Română). "¡Por muchos años!" (Español). Per molti anni! (Italian). Por moitos anos! (Portugués). Pour moult années! Pendant de nombreuses années. (Français)

There are other Italian synonyms that are a lot more similar to those latin words: 1) Flavus (Yellow) can be translated in Italian as Fulvo (but it's used more as "Dark Yellow"). 2) Caeruleus (Blue) can be also translated as Ceruleo. 3) Roseus (Pink) can be translated as Róseo. 4) Brunneus/Fuscus (Brown) can be translated as Bruno/Fosco (but we usually use "Fosco" not only for "Brown" but for "Dark colors" in general). 5) Purpureus (Purple) can be also translated as Purpureo. 6) Russus (Red) is already pretty similar to Rosso, but there is also the synonym Rubro that is similar to Ruber. And here a clarification: 1) Lux in Italian becomes "Luce" because, in latin, the declination is "Lux, Lucis, Luci, Lucem, Lux, Luce" and Italian words are usually more similar to every case other than Nominative and Vocative (that are often different for latin words of the third declination).

A part from other specifications (not necessarily corrections, because it's all Portuguese at the end of the day) that I've seen so far, we can also say "púrpura" and "violeta" for "purple" in Portuguese.

We don't use "gris" in Portuguese - although we refer to a grey hair as "grisalho". From where I come in Northeastern Portugal, when a traditional brick oven is at its highest temperatures, we say that it is "rojo" - not pronounced as in Spanish, but kind of the same meaning, since the bricks become red. There's also the word "rubro" when a metal is incandescent (thus, also red). "Marrom" is not used in Portugal; the word used is "castanho". Also, "purpúreo" is an adjective; the word used is "púrpura". "Violeta" is also used, but for a lighter purple. Funny enough, the word "roxo" is very similar to the Spanish "rojo" for "red", and that's related also to the purple colour an incandescent metal has. "Tenebris" in Portuguese can be found as "Trevas", that also refers to darkness.

There is also Romansh, wich is only spoken by around 4k people in Switzerland and is supposedly very similar to Vulgar Latin

Nice video! As an italian i'll just specify for the curious ones that "porpora" is not the same color as "viola". While the last is generic purple, the first is a more reddish shade of purple. I don't know if it's the same in other languages, but anyway i specify that. Also azzurro is more used than turchese. Anyway, compliments to you! You absolutely made it very correctly!

4:20 Parece-me que Marrom é mais falado no português do Brasil. Acho que em Portugal eles dizem "Castanho".

For Caerelius (blue), there is a cognate in Spanish that is celeste, which is a light blue/sky blue, deriving from the word cielo (sky), which in Latin was Caelus.

Great video as always! ❤️

in Spanish you have an old word for red, "bermejo" similar to vermelho/vermeil, but now it´s rare and out of use

In portuguese brown is also called castanho which probably comes from the portuguese word castanha which means chestnut

In portuguese the word “penumbra” means a place covered with shadow, and in the movie “The Ninth Gate” Johnny Depp meets The Ceniza Bros in Spain, two old men👴🏻👴🏻

I'm brazilian and we says brown as "marrom". Portugal says "castanho". Nobody use gris as Grey. It's Cinza in Brazil or cinzento in Portugal.

🇭🇷Hrvatski: Dobar dan Romani! Iz 🇭🇷Zagreba sam, osim hrvatskog i engleskog, znam još srpski, bosanski/bošnjački i crnogorski. Inače sam govornik jednog slavenskog jezika. Tu nedostaje retoromanski jezik, ostalo je sve u redu. Pozdravljam Portugalke koje poznajem ovim putem. 🇬🇧English: Hello Romanic people! I'm from 🇭🇷Zagreb. I'm speaker of Croatian language, but I know English, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. In this video miss Romansh. For Portugueses I'm saying "Hi!" in this commentary.

Romanian has a few peculiar words of Latin origin: old man = bătrân from veteranus, earth=pământ from pavimentum, funeral=înmormântare, grave=mormânt, from monumentum, deceiced=răposat from repausatus, învățare=learning from invitiare, dezmierdare=caress from dismerdare, foot=picior from petiolus, left (hand)=stâng from stancus (but Italian also had ”mano stanca”=left hand)

"Lila" for purple is also used in Spanish

In portugal we dont typically say "Marrom" to "brown", we use more the word "castanho(a)", which came from the latin "castaneus" which means "chestnut" (chestnut in portuguese is also castanha)

There are some misleading things on Romanian here, some words mentioned are neologisms (like "gri", which comes from French) although they may have Latin equivalents, like the mentioned "cenușiu" (gray), while some directly-Latin words present in Romanian are omitted. So: - "bleu" ("light blue") comes from French - and is even pronunced French-like! - but has a somewhat different meaning than the directly-Latin "albastru" - "roz" (pink) comes directly from French, like the word for rose ("roza"), while the original Romanian word for that flower is "trandafir" (from Greek), which gave the color "trandafiriu" (pale red more than pink) - "maro" comes directly from the French "maron" (chestnut), no matter older genealogy; the Romanian original is "căpriu/căprui" (goat-colored), "castaniu" (chestnut-like - "castana"=chestnut is of Latin origin) or "cafeniu" (cofee-like), where "cafea"=cofee comes from Turkish - "brun" comes from French and has a somewhat different meaning (darker, greyish brown, or dark-haired and dark-skinned) - "violet" is French too (but "purpuriu" is Latin) - "turcoaz" came from French - "deschis" just means open (like you say "open road" but also the path is "clear"), and "închis" means closed, like Italian "chiuso"=closed & "dischiuso/schiuso"=open - "închis" (does come from Latin "inclusus" but that doesn't mean "included", but has the same sense as in Romanian - closed, shut up or in, confined) is used for colors meaning "darker" or "somewhat darker"; for really dark color you use "întunecat", from Latin *intunicāre - tunicō (“cover with a tunic”); interestingly, this was mingled semantically and morphologically with the word “întuneric” (darkness) from Latin tenebricus < tenebris/tenebra (întuneca=to become dark, întunecat=dark-colored, întuneric=darkness). "Tenebros" was taken from French "tenebreux" with the same meaning (scary, darkness-like), and the French neologism "sumbru" is also used.

It's very interesting! Just one thing, Purple in Spain, we say Morado, Violeta, Púrpura, Lila, Malva. It depends on if It's light or dark.

From Mexico here, we not only say violeta and púrpura but also “lila” and “morado”, lila for a flower and morado for blackberries, we don't use much marrón but we use “color café” (coffee color) or just café , I guess because of the color of the roasted coffee bean.

0:47 in portuguese we use the word "cinzento" way more than those 2

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In french, "azur" specifically means the colour of the sky, it is not possible to use it to define any shade of blue

I heard a Portuguese RU-vidr say that in Portugal brown is 'castanho" not "marrom"

In Italian we also have "oscuro". Used for something dark, unknown, but sometimes also evil.

Great video! Keep it up, wolf :)

En español, en Mex, también se usa: "bermellón", rojo intenso café = marrón violeta = morado prieto para describir piel oscura.

me encanta éste canal bro, están muy buenos todos tus videos

"Lume" exists in italian too, and it means the candlelight or small lights in general

I love these videos!

I see romanian is more latin than all the others

Great videos! In Spanish, brown can also be translated as "café" :) marrón is almost never used in some places.

In old brazilian portuguese we used 'alba' or 'alvo', it also means white, it's easy to read old books like old traductions of bible for example, we can read "alvo" a lot of times, especially when refer to snow and dawn.

The right etymology of "bleu" blāo > blę̄wu > bleu "bleu" come from of "blāo" in Old Frankish

Thank you for educating us about Latineurope.

"Albastru"(blue) in romanian is more likely a combination of "alb"(white) and "astru" which means "sky". In Romanian light (colour) we also say "clar/ă" and to dark (colour) we say "obscur"

In Italian we also have celeste which is even lighter than azzurro (which is lighter than blu)

Thats some pretty epic music for learning about colors!

Asturian language: Yellow = Mariellu Grey = Gris Red = Coloráu White = Blancu Blue = Azul Green = Verde Black = Negru, prietu Pink = Rosa Brown = Marrón Purple = Moráu, púrpura Turquoise = Turquesa Light (colour) = Claru Dark (colour) = Escuru Light = Lluz Shadow = Solombra

Nobody in Spain says Colorado to mean red, colorado just means it when a person blushes

Probably, it has already been pointed out by a lot of people before in the comments, but concerning the portuguese word for the colour brown, the word "marrom" is almost exclusively used in Brazil, whereas in Portugal and the other portuguese-speaking countries, the word "castanho" is widely used, wich comes from the word for chestnut (castanha). I think "castanho" is also used in Brazil, although "marrom" seems to be more prevalent.

in english, there are cognates to those words such as “vermilion” like a deeper red, little bit orange pigment of red, “azure” basically like blue or cyan, “viridescent” as an adjective “green”, “obscure/sombre/tenebrous” are synonyms for “dark”

Great video, lovely content! Just a little info: I'm a 32 yo portuguese guy and never heard marrom for brown. We all use the word Castanho/Castanha as in the fruit castanha (chestnut). Keep it up, thanks for the video!❤

3:24 wait, so the romans were gamers???

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Fantastico. Buen video.

Quite interesting video. Thanks

Hi! Have you read “La vida secreta de las palabras”? It’s a book about etymology, it came out recently

One interesting thing I only recently noticed about the word for white (latin "albus"). The portuguese word for "target" (something that is used for shooting practice or something/someone that is hit by a gun or weapon) is "alvo" and while watching a documentary from Argentina I noticed the spanish word for target is "blanco" (I dont know if it's the same in all spanish-speaking countries). Does it come from the fact that, originally, all practicing targets were white or painted white for better visibility? By the way, can you tell me the word for "target" in all the other romance languages? Thank you.

Really interesting, thank you! As Italian speaking I use both, "marrone" e "bruno"

Know I realized Romanian isn't Slavic language how many fools are talking. That don't even know the romanian language!

Romanian seems to have preserved the most Latin words.

In Argentina, the color purple is commonly referred to as violeta, instead of morado, which would mean bruised to me, or purpura.

Great video, just one correction. In Portugal, I've nevet refered to something as marrom. We do know that word exist but you will almost never hear it. The proper adjetive to describe something brown is "castanho" (derived from chestnut, I think). However, I can't speak for the other portuguese variants.

In Romanian, people say “mov” for purple.

2:06 Portuguese also has "alvo" wich means white. It's usually used to mean something is really white, just like how we use "negro" for something that is really black.

Small note "pourpre" in french is more of a deep red (blood like) rather than purple ! Great video.

Obrigado pelo vídeo.

Romanian looks the most closed to Latin ..

Romanian preserved the Latin case system and grammar while the other Romance languages developed prepositions and dropped the case system entirely. This means Romanian is the closest language to Latin in terms of grammar. It's impossible to communicate the Latin vocative case in Italian, but when a Romanian hears "et tu brute" they know exactly how Caeser meant it(or Shakespeare rather). Other people who hear Romanian think it sounds closest to Latin. To me Italian sounds quite effeminate with its "o" endings. Romanian is the only romance language that still maintains a masculine and authoritative sound like Latin does. The case declensions in Romanian are inherited directly from Latin. Therefore, they cannot be "sooo different". Italian does not even have case declensions. It is so different from Latin that it is astounding that Italian as well as other western romance languages actually come from Latin. The "complemento di vocazione" in Italian is just adding "oh" in front of the nouns, much like in English. But this is not how Latin functions and it doesn't really capture the mood of the Latin and Romanian vocative case.

Hii😊 good video💙😊!! -different synonyms and colors in portuguese: 🚩-Ouro/Dourado (gold); 🔱-Prata/Argento (silver); 💓- Pink (borrowed from english, in brazil pink is used like a hot pink shade); 🔮-Violeta (violet);

1:37 in Portuguese we also have "colorado", but sounds arcaic and it's use is very limited The word for "blushing" in portuguese is "corado"

Somehow I get Skyrim vibe from your videos. Maybe it's the ambience and the music.

6:14 Romania is like: I need to remind everyone that I am separated from the others.

0:41 The most common way to say grey in Portuguese it's actually "cinzento" while "cinza" can be heard in some reasons but "gris" I have never heard of 3:55 Pink in Portuguese is "cor-de-rosa" which means "colour of pink" but since it's waaaay too long most of the times it's only "rosa" 4:21 Brown is "castanho". I've never heard "marrom"

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About "brown" in Portuguese: "castanho" is the brown color derived from yellow and "marrom" is the brown color derived from red.

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In America, especially in Mexico, we also call the brown color "coffee" in a vulgar term, perhaps. It is the mixture of the Spanish conquest of America and American Spanish is different in some way from Castilian Spanish.

Wonderful. This made me drop tears. I love my Portuguese norma culta. Saudações to all my romance language bothers.

Seria genial que hicieras la misma comparación con otros idiomas romances, como el catalán, el sardo, el romanche, el gallego, etc