email

== English == === Alternative forms === e-mail === Etymology 1 === The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈiːmeɪl/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈiˌmeɪl/ Rhymes: -iːmeɪl ==== Noun ==== email (countable and uncountable, plural emails) (computing) (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format. Synonym: mail Antonyms: mail, post, snail mail (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system. Synonym: mail Antonyms: mail, post, snail mail (countable) A message being sent through email. Synonym: mail Antonym: mailpiece (countable, informal) An email address. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed) (transitive) To send an email or emails to. (transitive, ditransitive) To send (data) through email. (intransitive) To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails. ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== webmail === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ĕ-mālʹ, IPA(key): /ɛˈmeɪl/ Rhymes: -eɪl ==== Noun ==== email (plural emails) (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”). ===== Alternative forms ===== emayle ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== email ombrant === References === === Further reading === email on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === maile, Lamie, Melia, ameli == Catalan == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English email. === Noun === email m (plural emails) email Synonym: correu == Chinese == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from English email. ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Noun ==== email email (message) (Classifier: 封 c) ===== Synonyms ===== 電郵／电邮 (diànyóu) ==== Verb ==== email to email (to send email to) (Classifier: 封 c) ===== Synonyms ===== 電郵／电邮 (diànyóu) === Etymology 2 === Phono-semantic matching of Mandarin 疫苗 (yìmiáo, “vaccine”). ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Noun ==== email (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, humorous or sarcastic) vaccine; inoculation == Czech == === Alternative forms === e-mail === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɛmaɪl] === Noun === email m inan enamel (informal) email (electronic communication) ==== Usage notes ==== Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor of e-mail. ==== Declension ==== == Dutch == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Middle French émail, from Old French esmal. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /eːˈmɑi̯/ Hyphenation: email ==== Noun ==== email n (uncountable, no diminutive) enamel Synonym: emaus (heraldry) tincture ===== Derived terms ===== emailleren ===== Related terms ===== emaus smalt smelten === Etymology 2 === From e-mail. ==== Noun ==== email m (plural emails, diminutive emailtje n) nonstandard spelling of e-mail === Anagrams === maile == French == === Alternative forms === e-mail, E-mail === Etymology === Borrowed from English email. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /i.mɛl/, /i.mɛjl/ === Noun === email m (plural emails) (informal, anglicism) email Synonyms: courriel, courrier électronique, mail === See also === émail === Anagrams === maile, mailé, mêlai == Hungarian == === Etymology === From French émail, from Old French esmal, from Frankish *smalt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɛmɒjil], [ˈɛmaːj], [ˈɛmaːjl] Hyphenation: email === Noun === email (usually uncountable, plural emailok) enamel, glaze (an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects) Synonym: zománc enamel (the hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth) Synonym: fogzománc ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === e-mail === References === Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006), Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN === Further reading === email in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. email in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024). == Italian == === Noun === email m or f (invariable) email Synonym: e-mail ==== Derived terms ==== emailare === Anagrams === amile, malie == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English email. === Noun === email m (plural emails) alternative spelling of e-mail == Romanian == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from French émail. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /eˈma.il/ ==== Noun ==== email n (plural emailuri) enamel ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === Unadapted borrowing from English email. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /iˈmejl/ ==== Noun ==== email n (plural emailuri) email ===== Declension ===== == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈimeil/ [ˈi.mei̯l] Rhymes: -imeil === Noun === email m (plural emails) email email address ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.