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smalt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
smalt
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

A borrowing from Italian smalto, from Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”). A doublet of smalto.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

smalts (plural)

Synonyms

Dumont's blue eschel

Questions

What does smalt mean?
A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide.
Where does smalt come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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