émail

See also: email, Email, e-mail, and E-Mail

French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French esmal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *smalt, compare German schmelzen, Danish smelte (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.maj/

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Noun

émail m (plural émaux)

1. enamel
2. vitreous enamel
3. glaze (coating on pottery)
4. tincture (heraldry)

Derived terms

• émailleur

Related terms

• émaillage
• émailler

Descendants

• Danish: emalje
• German: Email
• Russian: эмаль f (emalʹ)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• maile, mailé
• mêlai