diamante

Borrowed from French diamanté (“adorned with diamonds”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪəˈmɒnti/

diamante (plural diamantes)

1. An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone.
2. A diamante poem.

diamante (comparative more diamante, superlative most diamante)

1. covered in diamante decorations
   • 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian‎:

     An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.

2. shiny or iridescent, as if covered in or made of diamonds

• Mandaite, aminated, animated

diamante

1. plural of diamant

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond

• IPA^(key): /dja.mɑ̃t/
• Homophones: diamantent, diamantes

diamante

1. inflection of diamanter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• amendait, damaient

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond
2. (card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

• IPA^(key): /di.aˈman.te/, /djaˈman.te/[1]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧màn‧te, dia‧màn‧te

Learned borrowing of Late Latin diamantem, from Latin adamantem, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

diamante m (plural diamanti)

1. diamond (all senses)
2. (sports, baseball) baseball field, ball field, sandlot baseball diamond
3. the crown of an anchor

A calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger pearl.

diamante m (plural diamanti)

1. excelsior (a small size of type, standardized to 3 point)

• adimante, amidante, andatemi, dimenata, mandiate

Borrowed from Late Latin diamantem, from Latin adamantem, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /dja.ˈmɐ̃.ti/
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɨ, -ɐ̃tʃi
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧man‧te

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond

• IPA^(key): /djaˈmante/ [d̪jaˈmãn̪.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: dia‧man‧te

From Old French diamant, from Latin adamantem (“hardest steel; diamond”), influenced by δια- (dia-); from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “unconquerable, invincible”). Doublet of imán. More at English diamond.

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond
2. (card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

Calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger pearl.

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. excelsior (a small size of type, standardized to 3 point)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

diamante

1. inflection of diamantar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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