martelo

Ultmately from Medieval Latin martellus, from Latin marculus (“hammer”), reinforced by several Romance languages. Compare French marteau, Italian martello, Portuguese martelo, Spanish martillo. Doublet of maĉeto.

• IPA^(key): /marˈtelo/

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• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: mar‧te‧lo

martelo (accusative singular martelon, plural marteloj, accusative plural martelojn)

1. hammer

• militmartelo

• Ido: martelo

First attested in the 13th century.^[1] From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin martellus, itself a diminutive of martulus, variant of Latin marculus, or alternatively based on malleus.

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈtelo/ [maɾˈt̪e.lʊ], /maɾˈtɛlo/ [maɾˈt̪ɛ.lʊ]
• Rhymes: -elo, -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: mar‧te‧lo

martelo m (plural martelos)

1. hammer
   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten vnna yxola de peto, iten un escoupre, iten vn traado, iten vnna tarabela, iten dous bingueletes, iten duas serras de mao, iten vnna junteyra, iten dous martelos grandes de monte

     item, a pocket adze; item, a chisel; item, a drill; item, an auger; item, two gimlets; item, two handsaws; item, a jointer; item, two big hammers for working outside

2. knocker

   Synonym: chamador

3. (anatomy) the malleus

• peixe martelo

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “martel”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “martelo”, 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), “martelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “martelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “martelo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “martelo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Borrowed from Esperanto martelo, Italian martello, Spanish martillo and French marteau, from Medieval Latin martellus.

• IPA^(key): /marˈte.lo/

martelo (plural marteli)

1. hammer

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• Hyphenation: mar‧te‧lo

From Old Galician-Portuguese martelo, from Late Latin martellus, itself a diminutive of martulus, variant of Latin marculus, or alternatively based on malleus. Compare Galician martelo, Spanish martillo, Catalan martell, and Italian martello.

martelo m (plural martelos)

1. hammer
2. (anatomy) the malleus
3. (sports) hammer

• → Ambonese Malay: martelu
• → Chittagonian: মাত্তুল (mattul)
  • → Bengali: মাত্তুল (mattul)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मारतौल (mārtaul), मार्तोल (mārtol), मारतोल (mārtol)

  Urdu: مارتول (mārtaul, mārtol)

• → Língua Geral Amazônica: martera
• → Manado Malay: martelu
• → Tamil: மடுத்தல் (maṭuttal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

martelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of martelar

• “martelo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “martelo”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “martelo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “martelo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “martelo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026