pálidas

Pálidas is the feminine plural form of the adjective pálido in Spanish and Portuguese, used to describe something pale in color or lacking brightness. It can function as an adjective, and in literary contexts it may also be used as a noun phrase meaning "the pale ones."

Etymology: the word derives from Latin pallidus, meaning pale or wan, and entered the Romance languages through Latin influence. The form pálidas reflects feminine plural agreement with the nouns it modifies or stands in for.

Usage: In everyday language, pálidas describes skin tone, fabrics, paint, or lighting, as in piel pálida or telas pálidas. In figurative speech it can signal fragility, illness, or ghostliness, and it often appears in poetry or prose to convey a subdued or ethereal mood.

In literature, pálidas is used to create imagery of pallor and quietness, for example in references to ojos pálidos or luz pálida. Similar terms in Spanish and Portuguese—pálido/pálida and palidez—share the same semantic field and are common in descriptive writing.

See also: palidez, pálido.