smalto
See also: smaltò
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian smalto. Doublet of schmaltz, email, and smalt.
Noun edit
smalto (plural smalti)
- A piece of coloured glass used in mosaic.
- 1848, The Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art[1], Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, page 86:
- This is done by striking the smalto with a sharp-edged hammer, directly over a similar edge, placed vertically beneath.
- 1857, “The applications of improved machinery and materials to art-manufacture”, in The Art Journal[2], page 112:
- The smalto is thus broken as far as possible into the form desired, and it is afterwards ground with emery powder upon a lead wheel until the precise size and form are obtained.
- 2005, Reham Aarti Jacobsen, Mosaics for the First Time[3], page 38:
- Press the smalti into the adhesive in a rainbow pattern along the frame, with as small a gap as possible between the pieces.
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Medieval Latin smaltum, likely via some Gallo-Romance language (in particular Old Occitan esmalt).
Noun edit
smalto m (plural smalti)
- enamel (all senses)
- glaze
- (heraldry) tincture
- Gli cinque smalti dell'araldica sono rosso, azzurro, nero, verde e porpora
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
smalto
Further reading edit
- smalto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana