amalgama

See also: amálgama and amalgamá

English

Noun

amalgama

1. Archaic form of amalgam.
   • Burke

     They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amalgama in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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French

Verb

amalgama

1. third-person singular past historic of amalgamer

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم‎ (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “I soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

Noun

amalgama f (plural amalgame)

1. amalgam (all senses)

Verb

amalgama

1. third-person singular present indicative of amalgamare
2. second-person singular imperative of amalgamare

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Latin

Etymology

• From Arabic مَلْغَم‎ (malḡam), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma), which latter is from the stem as in μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) and has developed from meanings of “emollient” over “malleable material”, “metal put around things”, to “gold” in Modern Greek, gold often the malleable metal fitted to things.
• According to others some عَمْل‎ (ʿaml) الْجَمْع‎ (al-jamʿ) or الْجَمَاعَة‎ (al-jamāʿa) has underlain, but this root is far from chemical meanings, it just means “adding up, gathering”, not “conjoining”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmal.ɡa.ma/, [aˈmaɫ.ɡa.ma]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈmal.ɡa.ma/

Noun

amalgama n (genitive amalgamatis); third declension (from Medieval Latin)

1. amalgam

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	amalgama	amalgamata
genitive	amalgamatis	amalgamatum
dative	amalgamatī	amalgamatibus
accusative	amalgama	amalgamata
ablative	amalgamate	amalgamatibus
vocative	amalgama	amalgamata

Descendants

• → Belarusian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
• → Bulgarian: амалга̀ма (amalgàma)
• → Catalan: amalgama
• → Czech: amalgám
• → Danish: amalgam
• → Dutch: amalgaam
  • Afrikaans: amalgaam
• → English: amalgam
• → Finnish: amalgaami
• → French: amalgame
  • → Greek: αμάλγαμα (amálgama)
  • → Latvian: amalgama
  • → Lithuanian: amalgamà
• → Galician: amálgama
• → German: Amalgam
• → Icelandic: amalgam
• → Italian: amalgama
• → Macedonian: амалгам (amalgam)
• → Malay: amalgam
• → Norwegian: amalgam
• → Occitan: amalgama
• → Polish: amalgamat
• → Portuguese: amálgama
• → Romanian: amalgam
• → Russian: амальга́ма (amalʹgáma)
  • → Kazakh: амальгама (amalʹgama)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ама̀лга̄м
  • Latin: amàlgām
• → Slovak: amalgám
• → Slovene: amalgám
• → Spanish: amalgama
• → Swedish: amalgam
• → Ukrainian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)

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Portuguese

Verb

amalgama

1. third-person singular present indicative of amalgamar
2. second-person singular imperative of amalgamar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amalˈɡama/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “I soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

Noun

amalgama f (plural amalgamas)

1. amalgam (a combination of different things)
   • 2013, René J. Vergara, The Art of Cuban Percussion / El Arte de la Percusión Cubana, Schwabe AG (→ISBN), page 12

     La música cubana nace de una amalgama de fórmulas de la música clásica, folklórica de origen Hispánico y Africano, así como popular, militar, religiosa, con el aporte de países de las Antillas, el Caribe, Francia, Inglaterra y los Estados Unidos.

     Cuban music is born from an amalgam of formulas from classical music, folkloric music of Hispanic and African origin, as well as pop, military, and religious music, with contributions from countries in the Antilles, the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States.

2. (metallurgy) amalgam (an alloy containing mercury)
   • 1848, José María Pérez Morales, Benito Tamayo, Curso de química general arreglado a las esplicaciones del profesor D. Vicente Santiago de Masarnau y comprendiendo todo lo mandado en el plan vigente de estudios, page 739

     El estaño y el mercurio se alean fácilmente y en varias proporciones. Estas amalgamas son muy brillantes, y no se alteran por solo la accion del aire.

     Tin and mercury are alloyed easily and in several proportions. These amalgams are very shiny, and they are not altered by the mere effect of air.

Derived terms

• amalgamar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

amalgama

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of amalgamar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of amalgamar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of amalgamar.

Further reading

• “amalgama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.