Other forms: goldsmiths
A goldsmith is a craftsman who works in precious metal. A master goldsmith, the goldsmith's workshop, trained as a goldsmith.
The trade is one of the oldest there is, and in London the Goldsmiths' Company still runs the assay office that hallmarks precious metal — a system of consumer protection about seven hundred years old. Goldsmiths were also the first bankers in England, because people left gold with them for safekeeping and the receipts began circulating as money. Note silversmith, blacksmith.
1noungoldsmithA craftsman who works in precious metal.
“The goldsmith made her wedding ring by hand in his small workshop.”
goldsmith is a craftsman.
Old English goldsmith is gold plus smith, and every Germanic language builds it the same way. Smith comes from a root meaning to work with the hands.
Proto-Germanic
*gulþasmiþaz — goldsmith
Old English
goldsmiþ — goldsmith
Middle English
goldsmith
English, today
goldsmith
From Middle English goldsmith, from Old English goldsmiþ (“goldsmith”), from Proto-Germanic gulþasmiþaz (“goldsmith”), equivalent to gold + smith. Cognate with Scots goldsmyth, gouldsmeth (“goldsmith”), stq Gouldsmid (“goldsmith”), West Frisian goudsmid (“goldsmith”), Dutch goudsmid (“goldsmith”), German Goldschmied (“goldsmith”), Danish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Swedish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Icelandic gullsmiður (“goldsmith”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English orbatour, orbatur (“goldsmith”) and orfever, orfevre (“goldsmith”), both borrowed from Old French -.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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