émail

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

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French email, from Old French esmal, from Early Medieval Latin smaltum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.maj/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

émail m (plural émaux or émails)

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

Notes

• The plurials in the sense of enamel are both émaux and émails.

Derived terms

• émailleur

Related terms

• émaillage
• émailler

Descendants

• → Danish: emalje
• → German: Emaille f, Email n (now specialist, otherwise less common)
• → Romanian: email
• → Russian: эмаль (emalʹ)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• maile, mailé
• mêlai