zafiro

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese çafil, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”),

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /θaˈfiɾo/ [θaˈfi.ɾʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /θaˈfiɾo/ [θaˈfi.ɾʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /saˈfiɾo/ [saˈfi.ɾʊ]

• Rhymes: -iɾo

Noun

zafiro m (plural zafiros)

1. sapphire

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “çafil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “zafiro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zafiro”, 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), “zafiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θaˈfiɾo/ [θaˈfi.ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /saˈfiɾo/ [saˈfi.ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: za‧fi‧ro

Noun

zafiro m (plural zafiros)

1. sapphire

See also

• corindón

Further reading

• “zafiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025