smalt

A borrowing from Italian smalto, from Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”). A doublet of smalto.

smalt (countable and uncountable, plural smalts)

1. A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide.

   Synonyms: Dumont's blue, eschel

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Borrowed from Italian smalto. Cognate with German Schmelz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsmalt]
• Rhymes: -alt

smalt m inan

1. enamel (coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects)

• “smalt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “smalt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /smal/

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smalt m (plural smalts)

1. smalt

• “smalt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /smɑːlt/

smalt

1. neuter singular of smal

• IPA^(key): /smɑlt/

smalt

1. past tense of smelle

• IPA^(key): /smɑːlt/

smalt

1. neuter singular of smal

smalt n (plural smalturi)

1. alternative form of smalț

smalt

1. indefinite neuter singular of smal

smalt

1. past indicative of smälta

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