émail

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

• IPA^(key): /e.maj/

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émail m (plural émaux or émails)

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

• The plurials in the sense of enamel are both émaux [1]and émails.[2]

• émailleur

• émaillage
• émailler

• → Danish: emalje
• → German: Emaille f, Email n
• → Romanian: email
• → Russian: эмаль (emalʹ)

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

• maile, mailé
• mêlai