morello

The story

1. Latin · derived fromamārus
2. Medieval Latin · derived fromamārellum
3. Dutch · derived fromamarelle
4. Italian · derived fromamarello
5. Italian · derived frommorello“dark-coloured”
6. Italian · derived from-ello
7. English todaymorello

Probably either: * an alteration of morel with Italian -ello substituted for the ending, perhaps after Italian morello (“dark-coloured”); or * from Italian amarello and/or Dutch amarelle, marelle, both from Medieval Latin amārellum, from Latin amārus + -ellum.

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