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diamante

/djaˈmante/

noun, masculine/djaˈmante/plural: diamantes

diamond; diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)

Sencillamente, cada vez hay más ricos en el mundo y tienen más dinero para gastar en cosas como coches con polvo de diamante en la pintura y equipamiento de picnic integrado en el maletero.

From Old French diamant, from Latin adamantem (“hardest steel; diamond”), influenced by δια- (dia-); from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “unconquerable, invincible”). Doublet of imán. More at English diamond.

noun, masculine/djaˈmante/plural: diamantes

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

Calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger pearl.