# diamante
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French diamanté (“adorned with diamonds”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /daɪəˈmɒnti/

### Noun

diamante (plural diamantes)
* An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone.
* A diamante poem.

### Adjective

diamante (comparative more diamante, superlative most diamante)
* covered in diamante decorations
** 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian‎:An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.
* shiny or iridescent, as if covered in or made of diamonds

### Anagrams

* Mandaite, aminated, animated

## Afrikaans
### Noun

diamante
* plural of diamant

## Asturian
### Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)
* diamond

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dja.mɑ̃t/
* Homophones: diamantent, diamantes

### Verb

diamante
* inflection of diamanter:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* amendait, damaient

## Galician
### Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)
* diamond
* (card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.aˈman.te/, /djaˈman.te/
* Rhymes: -ante
* Hyphenation: di‧a‧màn‧te, dia‧màn‧te

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

diamante m (plural diamanti)
* diamond (all senses)
* (sports, baseball) baseball field, ball field, sandlot baseball diamond
* the crown of an anchor

##### Derived terms

* diamantare
* diamantato
* diamantifero
* diamantina
* nanodiamante

### Etymology 2

A calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger pearl.

#### Noun

diamante m (plural diamanti)
* excelsior (a small size of type, standardized to 3 point)

### References

* ↑ diamante in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* adimante, amidante, andatemi, dimenata, mandiate

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin diamantem, from Latin adamantem, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒi.aˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒi.aˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒi.aˈmɐ̃.te/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈmɐ̃.te], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈmɐ̃.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /di.ɐˈmɐ̃.tɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /djɐˈmɐ̃.tɨ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /dja.ˈmɐ̃.ti/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɨ, -ɐ̃tʃi
* Hyphenation: di‧a‧man‧te

### Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)
* diamond

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /djaˈmante/ [d̪jaˈmãn̪.t̪e]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ante
* Syllabification: dia‧man‧te

### Etymology 1

From Old French diamant, from Latin adamantem (“hardest steel; diamond”), influenced by δια- (dia-); from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “unconquerable, invincible”). Doublet of imán. More at English diamond.

#### Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)
* diamond
* (card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

##### Derived terms

* bodas de diamante
* diamante mandarín
* diamante modesto
* diamantífero
* diamantino
* punta de diamante

##### See also

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text) :
| corazones | diamantes | picas | tréboles |

### Etymology 2

Calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger pearl.

#### Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)
* excelsior (a small size of type, standardized to 3 point)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

diamante
* inflection of diamantar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “diamante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10