zafiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese çafil, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”),

• Rhymes: -iɾo

zafiro m (plural zafiros)

1. sapphire

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “çafil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çafi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zafiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “zafiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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zafiro

Wikipedia ^es

From Latin sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaˈfiɾo/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saˈfiɾo/

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• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: za‧fi‧ro

zafiro m (plural zafiros)

1. sapphire

• corindón

• “zafiro”, 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