calafatear

• galafatear, garafetar

From Old Galician-Portuguese calafetar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic قَلْفَطَ (qalfaṭa, “to caulk”).

• IPA^(key): /kalafateˈaɾ/

calafatear (first-person singular present calafateo, first-person singular preterite calafateei, past participle calafateado)

1. to caulk (seal joints with caulk)
   • 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:

     por calças et sevo et mangueiras et garafetar o tillado

     for wedges and tallow and hoses and caulking the deck

• calafate
• garafate

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “calafetar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garaf”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “calafatear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “calafatear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calafatear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From calafate +‎ -ear.

• IPA^(key): /kalafateˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧la‧fa‧te‧ar

calafatear (first-person singular present calafateo, first-person singular preterite calafateé, past participle calafateado)

1. (transitive) to caulk (seal joints with caulk)

   Synonym: enmasillar

• “calafatear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28