estaño

See also: estañó

Galician

Alternative forms

• estano

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin stannum, stagnum, of Celtic origin, probably from Proto-Celtic *stagnos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtaɲʊ/

Noun

estaño m (uncountable)

1. tin
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 421:

     Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona de fora parte ou da çibdade que trouxer estaño ou chonbo ou peltre ou cobre ou latón labrado ou por labrar [...] que page do que vender de cada XV mrs, duas brancas.

     Item, they ordered that any person, either from outside or from the city, who would bring tin or lead or pewter or cooper or brass, wrought or unwrought [...] shall pay for each 15 morabedis they sold, two brancas

References

• “estaño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “estaño” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “estaño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “estaño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “estaño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtaɲo/ [esˈt̪a.ɲo]
• Rhymes: -aɲo
• Syllabification: es‧ta‧ño

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish estanno, from Latin stannum, stagnum, of Celtic origin; see also Irish stán.

Noun

estaño m (uncountable)

1. tin
2. solder (tin alloy used to solder)
3. (obsolete) lagoon, pond

   Synonyms: laguna, albufera

Derived terms

• papel de estaño

 

Etymology 2

Verb

estaño

1. first-person singular present indicative of estañar

Further reading

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