Skip to content
OneKitly

Esmeralda

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ɛzməˈɹɑːldə//
  • //ɛzməˈɹɛldə//

A female given name from Spanish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Spanish.

  2. 2

    A barangay of Balungao, Pangasinan, Philippines.

Etymology

From Spanish esmeralda (“emerald”), as first used in the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).