Noun: esmeralda
Gender: f
Hyphenation: es‧me‧ral‧da
| Singular f | esmeralda |
| Plural f | esmeraldas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like esmeralda
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Spanish esmeralda, possibly through the intermediate of Old French esmeralde (Modern French émeraude), from Vulgar Latin *smeralda, *smaraldus, alteration of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), of Semitic origin. Cf. also the Old Spanish form esmaragde. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
esmeralda', French Nouns '
émeraude', Latin Nouns '
smaragdus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σμάραγδος'.
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