different between rhinestone vs diamante

English

Etymology

Rhine +? stone; a calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”).

Noun

rhinestone (plural rhinestones)

1. An artificial diamond, strass.

   Synonym: strass

Derived terms

• rhinestone cowboy

Translations

Adjective

rhinestone (not comparable)

1. Made of or encrusted with rhinestones.

Further reading

• rhinestone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• enthronise, threonines

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French diamanté (“adorned with diamonds”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /da???m?nti/

Noun

diamante (plural diamantes)

1. An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone.
2. A diamante poem.

Adjective

diamante (comparative more diamante, superlative most diamante)

1. covered in diamante decorations
2. shiny or iridescent, as if covered in or made of diamonds

Anagrams

• Mandaite, aminated, animated

Afrikaans

Noun

diamante

1. plural of diamant

Asturian

Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.m??t/
• Homophones: diamantent, diamantes

Verb

diamante

1. inflection of diamanter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• amendait, damaient

Galician

Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond
2. (card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin diamas, diamantis, from Latin adam?s, adamantis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (adámas, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ?- (a-, “un-”) + ?????? (damáz?, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh?-.

Noun

diamante m (plural diamanti)

1. diamond (all senses)
2. (sports, baseball) baseball field, ball field, sandlot baseball diamond
3. The crown of an anchor

Derived terms

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)

1. excelsior (a small size of type, standardized to 3 point)

Anagrams

• andatemi
• dimenata
• mandiate

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin diamas, diamantis, from Latin adam?s, adamantis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (adámas, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ?- (a-, “un-”) + ?????? (damáz?, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh?-.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dj?.?m??.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d??ja.?m??.t??i/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /dja.?m??.ti/
• Hyphenation: di?a?man?te
• Rhymes: -??nt?i

Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. Diamond

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja?mante/, [d?ja?mãn?.t?e]

Etymology 1

From Old French diamant, from Latin adam?s (“hardest steel; diamond”) (genitive singular adamantis), influenced by ???- (dia-); from Ancient Greek ?????? (adám?s, “unconquerable, invincible”). More at English diamond.

Noun

diamante m (plural diamantes)

1. diamond
2. (card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

Derived terms

See also

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)

1. excelsior (a small size of type, standardized to 3 point)

Further reading

• “diamante” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.