Noun: esmeril
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
-
Et ſi la pulen con el poluo daquella piedra que llaman en arauigo azumberic que es ala que nos dezimos eſmeril. eſclareſce ya quanto ⁊ fazes fremoſa. (And if it is polished with the powder of the stone called azumberic in Arabic, the one we call emery, it brightens and becomes beautiful.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 25v:]
Nouns inflected like esmeril
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French esmeril, from Old Italian smeriglio, ultimately from Ancient Greek σμύρις (smúris). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
σμύρις'.
Translations