esmalte

From Old Galician-Portuguese esmalte, probably from Old Occitan esmalt, from Early Medieval Latin smaltum.

• IPA^(key): [esˈmaltɪ]

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

• esmaltar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esmalte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esmalte”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esmalte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esmalte”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese esmalte, probably from Old Occitan esmalt, from Early Medieval Latin smaltum.

esmalte m (plural esmaltes)

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

   Synonym: (Portugal) verniz

• → Tetum: ezmalte

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

esmalte

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

• “esmalte”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “esmalte”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /esˈmalte/ [ezˈmal̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -alte
• Syllabification: es‧mal‧te

From Old Spanish esmalte, likely from Old Occitan esmalt, from Early Medieval Latin smaltum.

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

• → Tagalog: esmalte

esmalte

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

• “esmalte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish esmalte.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔesˈmalte/ [ʔɛsˈmal.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -alte
• Syllabification: es‧mal‧te

esmalte (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜋᜎ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. enamel