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See also:Email,e-mail,E-Mail,andémail

English

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Etymology 1

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Thenoun is anabbreviation ofelectronic mail. First attested in the 1970s.[1] Theverb is derived from the noun, by analogy withmail(“to send through the mail”).[2]

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Noun

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email (countable anduncountable,pluralemails)(computing)

  2. (uncountable) Asystem forsendingmessages anddatas by means of acomputer network, primarily theInternet, using theSimple Mail Transfer Protocol and theInternet Message Format.
    Synonym:mail
    Antonyms:mail,post,snail mail
    He sent me his details viaemail.
    The advent ofemail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
    Please stop sending me “constructivecriticisms” viaemail, or telling me that “ I feel you are beingdefensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.
  4. (uncountable) Thequantity of messages sent through an email system.
    Synonym:mail
    Antonyms:mail,post,snail mail
    I am searching through my oldemail.
    My inbox used to allow only 50 MB ofemail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
  6. (countable) Amessage being sent through email.
    Synonym:mail
    Antonym:mailpiece
    He sent me anemail last week to remind me about the meeting.
    I archive my oldemails using a cloud-based service.
  8. (countable, informal) Anemail address.
    What’s youremail?
    In this system, your username is youremail.
    Don’t send personal messages to my workemail.
Derived terms
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Translations
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system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network
quantity of messages sent through an email system
message sent through email
email address—see alsoe-mail address

Verb

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email (third-person singular simple presentemails,present participleemailing,simple past and past participleemailed)

  1. (transitive) Tosend anemail or emails to.
    Sheemailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
  2. (transitive, ditransitive) Tosend (data) through email.
    I’llemail you the link.
    Heemailed the file out to everyone.
  3. (intransitive) To send, orcompose and then send, one or more emails.
    Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole dayemailing and surfing the Web.
Translations
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(transitive) to send an email or emails to
(transitive) to send (something) through email
(intransitive) to send, or compose and send, an email or emails

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchemail, fromOld Frenchesmal(“enamel”) (modernFrenchémail(“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)),[3] fromMedieval Latinsmaltum(“enamel”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*(s)meld-(“to melt; to soften”).Doublet ofsmalt,smalto, andschmaltz.

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Noun

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email (pluralemails)

  1. (obsolete, rare)Enamel(“anopaque,glossycoating”).
    • 1579 January 11,George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented toElizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, inJoseph Haslewood, editor,Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published1811,→OCLC,page xxxiv:
      Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to reddemayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!
    • 1594,Tho[mas] Nashe,The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […],→OCLC, signature Diii; republished inAlexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor,The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London; Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [byHazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only,1883–1884,→OCLC,pages242–243:
      It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to redemayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.
      In other words, the weather was so cold that wine froze and resembled red enamel.
    • 1684,[Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, inObservations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […],→OCLC,pages96–97:
      Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a BrownEmail, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-RedEmail.
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References

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  1. ^“email,n.2”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, September 2011;“email,n.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022..
  2. ^“email,v.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, September 2011;“email,v.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  3. ^“† email,n.1”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, September 2011.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishemail.

Noun

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email m (pluralemails)

  1. email
    Synonym:correu

Chinese

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishemail.

Pronunciation

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This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with theIPA then please add some!
Particularly: “is this used in Mandarin?”

Noun

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email

  1. email(message)(Classifier:封c)
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Verb

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email

  1. toemail(to send email to)(Classifier:封c)
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Etymology 2

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Phono-semantic matching ofMandarin疫苗(yìmiáo,“vaccine”).

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Noun

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email

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, humorous or sarcastic)vaccine;inoculation

Czech

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CzechWikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Noun

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email m inan

  1. enamel
  2. (informal)email(electronic communication)

Usage notes

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Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor ofe-mail.

Declension

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Declension ofemail (hard masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativeemailemaily
genitiveemailuemailů
dativeemailuemailům
accusativeemailemaily
vocativeemaileemaily
locativeemailuemailech
instrumentalemailememaily

Dutch

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DutchWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedianl

Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchémail, fromOld Frenchesmal.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /eːˈmɑi̯/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:email

Noun

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email n (uncountable,nodiminutive)

  1. enamel
    Synonym:emaus
  2. (heraldry)tincture
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Etymology 2

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Frome-mail.

Noun

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email m (pluralemails,diminutiveemailtje n)

  1. nonstandard spelling ofe-mail

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French

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FrenchWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediafr

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishemail.

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Noun

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email m (pluralemails)

  1. (informal, anglicism)email
    Synonyms:courriel,courrier électronique,mail

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Hungarian

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HungarianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediahu

Etymology

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FromFrenchémail, fromOld Frenchesmal, fromFrankish*smalt.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmɒjil],[ˈɛmaːj],[ˈɛmaːjl]
  • Hyphenation:email

Noun

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email (usuallyuncountable,pluralemailok)

  1. enamel,glaze(an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects)
    Synonym:zománc
  2. enamel(the hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth)
    Synonym:fogzománc

Declension

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Inflection (stem in-o-, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativeemailemailok
accusativeemailtemailokat
dativeemailnakemailoknak
instrumentalemaillalemailokkal
causal-finalemailértemailokért
translativeemailláemailokká
terminativeemailigemailokig
essive-formalemailkéntemailokként
essive-modal——
inessiveemailbanemailokban
superessiveemailonemailokon
adessiveemailnálemailoknál
illativeemailbaemailokba
sublativeemailraemailokra
allativeemailhozemailokhoz
elativeemailbólemailokból
delativeemailrólemailokról
ablativeemailtólemailoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular		emailéemailoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural		emailéiemailokéi
Possessive forms ofemail
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.emailomemailjaim
2nd person sing.emailodemailjaid
3rd person sing.emailjaemailjai
1st person pluralemailunkemailjaink
2nd person pluralemailotokemailjaitok
3rd person pluralemailjukemailjaik

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References

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  1. ^Tótfalusi, István.Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005.→ISBN
  • Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006),Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó,→ISBN

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  • 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; publisheda–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

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IndonesianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaid

Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromDutchemail, fromMiddle Frenchémail (ModernFrenchémail), fromOld Frenchesmal, fromEarly Medieval Latinsmaltum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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émail (pluralemail-email)

  1. enamel
    1. an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
    2. (dentistry) the hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
      Synonym:enamel

Etymology 2

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Internationalism

Noun

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email (pluralemail-email)

  1. (colloquial)email
    Synonyms:pos elektronik,ratron,surat elektronik,pos-el,surel

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Italian

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ItalianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediait

Noun

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email m orf (invariable)

  1. email
    Synonym:e-mail

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Portuguese

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PortugueseWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapt

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishemail.

Noun

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email m (pluralemails)

  1. alternative spelling ofe-mail

Romanian

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RomanianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaro

Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromFrenchémail.

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email n (pluralemailuri)

  1. enamel
Declension
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singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeemailemailulemailuriemailurile
genitive-dativeemailemailuluiemailuriemailurilor
vocativeemailuleemailurilor

Etymology 2

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishemail.

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Noun

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email n (pluralemailuri)

  1. email
Declension
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singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeemailemailulemailuriemailurile
genitive-dativeemailemailuluiemailuriemailurilor
vocativeemailuleemailurilor

Spanish

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SpanishWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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email m (pluralemails)

  1. email
  2. email address

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According toRoyal 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.

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