émail
See also: email, Email, e-mail, and E-Mail
French
Etymology
From Middle French email, from Old French esmal, from Frankish *smalt and/or *smaltī, compare German schmelzen, Danish smelte (“to melt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.maj/
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Noun
émail m (plural émaux)
- enamel
- vitreous enamel
- glaze (coating on pottery)
- tincture (heraldry)
Derived terms
- émailleur
Related terms
- émaillage
- émailler
Descendants
- → Danish: emalje
- → German: Emaille f, Email n
- → Russian: эмаль (emalʹ)
Further reading
- “émail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- maile, mailé
- mêlai