esmalte

esmalte

See also: esmalté

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1350. Probably from Old Occitan esmalt, ultimately from Frankish *smalt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [esˈmaltɪ]

Noun

esmalte m (plural esmaltes)

1. enamel
2. enamel-work
   • 1435, Á. Rodriguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435), Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, d. 139:

     hũu esmalte con escudo con çinco follas de figueira, que podera pesar hũu marquo et medio de prata pouquo mas ou menos;

     an enamel with a shield with five leaves of fig, that can weight a mark and a half of silver, give or take

Related terms

• esmaltar

References

• “esmalte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “esmalte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “esmalte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “esmalte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /izˈmaw.t͡ʃi/ [izˈmaʊ̯.t͡ʃi], /ezˈmaw.t͡ʃi/ [ezˈmaʊ̯.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /izˈmaw.t͡ʃi/ [izˈmaʊ̯.t͡ʃi], /ezˈmaw.t͡ʃi/ [ezˈmaʊ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʒˈmaw.t͡ʃi/ [iʒˈmaʊ̯.t͡ʃi], /eʒˈmaw.t͡ʃi/ [eʒˈmaʊ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ezˈmaw.te/ [ezˈmaʊ̯.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʒˈmal.t(ɨ)/ [(i)ʒˈmaɫ.t(ɨ)]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -altɨ, (Brazil) -awt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: es‧mal‧te

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Medieval Latin smaltum, a borrowing from Frankish *smalt. Compare English enamel.

Noun

esmalte m (plural esmaltes)

1. enamel
2. glaze (coating on pottery)
3. nail polish, nail varnish

Verb

esmalte

1. inflection of esmaltar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Medieval Latin smaltum, a borrowing from Frankish *smalt. Compare English enamel.

Noun

esmalte m (plural esmaltes)

1. enamel
2. glaze (coating on pottery)
3. nail polish, nail varnish

   Synonyms: pintaúñas, barniz, laca

4. (heraldry) tincture

   Synonym: color

Derived terms

• quitaesmalte

Verb

esmalte

1. inflection of esmaltar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “esmalte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish esmalte.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: es‧mal‧te
• IPA^(key): /ʔesˈmalte/, [ʔesˈmal.te]

Noun

esmalte

1. enamel