calafatear

• galafatear, garafetar

From Old Galician-Portuguese calafetar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic قَلْفَطَ (qalfaṭa, “to caulk”).

• IPA^(key): /kalafateˈaɾ/

calafatear (first-person singular present calafateo, first-person singular preterite calafateei, past participle calafateado)

1. to caulk (seal joints with caulk)
   • 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:

     por calças et sevo et mangueiras et garafetar o tillado

     for wedges and tallow and hoses and caulking the deck

• calafate
• garafate

• “calafetar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “garaf” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “calafatear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “calafatear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “calafatear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From calafate +‎ -ear.

• IPA^(key): /kalafateˈaɾ/ [ka.la.fa.t̪eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧la‧fa‧te‧ar

calafatear (first-person singular present calafateo, first-person singular preterite calafateé, past participle calafateado)

1. (transitive) to caulk (seal joints with caulk)

   Synonym: enmasillar

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