giallo.
yellow
Meaning & usage
yellow
involving crimes and detective work (of a story)
Mistero giallo.
Racconti gialli.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Old French jalne (variant of jaune), from Latin galbinus. Crime fiction sense is in reference to the yellow covers of a series of mystery novels published by Mondadori from 1929.
yellow
amber, yellow (traffic signals)
detective fiction, detective novel, detective story; crime fiction; whodunit; pulp fiction
mystery, (police) case
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Old French jalne (variant of jaune), from Latin galbinus. Crime fiction sense is in reference to the yellow covers of a series of mystery novels published by Mondadori from 1929.
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