martelo

Ultmately from Medieval Latin martellus, from Latin marculus (“hammer”), reinforced by several Romance languages. Compare French marteau, Italian martello, Portuguese martelo, Spanish martillo. Doublet of maĉeto.

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• IPA^(key): /marˈtelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: mar‧te‧lo

martelo (accusative singular martelon, plural marteloj, accusative plural martelojn)

1. hammer

• militmartelo

Attested since the 13th century.^[1] From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin martellus, itself a diminutive of martulus, variant of Latin marculus, or alternatively based on malleus.

• IPA^(key): [maɾˈtelʊ], [maɾˈtɛlʊ]

martelo m (plural martelos)

1. hammer
   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten vnna yxola de peto, iten un escoupre, iten vn traado, iten vnna tarabela, iten dous bingueletes, iten duas serras de mao, iten vnna junteyra, iten dous martelos grandes de monte

     item, a pocket adze; item, a chisel; item, a drill; item, an auger; item, two gimlets; item, two handsaws; item, a jointer; item, two big hammers for working outside

2. knocker

   Synonym: chamador

3. (anatomy) the malleus

• peixe martelo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “martel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “martelo”, 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), “martelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “martelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Esperanto martelo, Italian martello, Spanish martillo and French marteau, from Medieval Latin martellus.

• IPA^(key): /marˈte.lo/

martelo (plural marteli)

1. hammer

• Hyphenation: mar‧te‧lo

From Old Galician-Portuguese martelo, from Late Latin martellus, itself a diminutive of martulus, variant of Latin marculus, or alternatively based on malleus. Compare Galician martelo, Spanish martillo, Catalan martell, and Italian martello.

martelo m (plural martelos)

1. hammer
2. (anatomy) the malleus
3. (sports) hammer

• → Chittagonian: মাত্তুল (mattul)
• → Língua Geral Amazônica: martera
• → Tamil: மடுத்தல் (maṭuttal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

martelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of martelar