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
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-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

• amendait, damaient

diamante m (plural diamantes)

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

diamante (plural diamantes)

1. diamond

From Late Latin diamas, diamantis, from Latin adamās, adamantis, 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)

• andatemi
• dimenata
• mandiate

From Late Latin diamas, diamantis, from Latin adamās, adamantis, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /djɐ.ˈmɐ̃.tɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒja.ˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /dja.ˈmɐ̃.ti/
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧man‧te
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ntʃi

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. Diamond

• IPA^(key): /djaˈmante/, [d̪jaˈmãn̪t̪e]

From Late Latin diamas, alteration of Latin adamās, (see adamante), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās) "unconquerable, invincible". More at diamond.

diamante m (plural diamantes)

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

• diamantífero
• diamantino

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 diamantes)

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

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