rutilant

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₁rewdʰ-“red”
2. Middle English · inherited fromrutilaunt“shining with a gold or red colour”
3. English todayrutilant

From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from rutilāns (“reddening”), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)). The English word is cognate with Italian rutilante, Portuguese rutilante, Spanish rutilante.

Words from the same roots