smaltum

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Frankish *smalt and/or *smaltī (“enamel, metallic alloy”). Documented from the year 913. === Noun === smaltum n (genitive smaltī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin) enamel ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== smaltatus ==== Descendants ==== Franco-Provençal: (Albanais) émâlyo m, (Saxel) émâlya f Old French: esmal (see there for further descendants) Old Occitan: esmalt (see there for further descendants) === References === "smaltum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)