email

Meanings

Noun

• A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
• A quantity of messages sent through an email system.
• A message sent through an email system.
• An email address.
• enamel.

Verb

• To send an email or emails to.
• To send (something) through email.
• To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

Origin

• The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail.
• Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (modern French émail), from Medieval Latin smaltum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld-. smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.