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petalum.

metal (usually gold) leaf or plate (a thin sheet of, usually precious, metal)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈpɛ.ta.ɫũː]Classical-Latin[ˈpɛː.ta.lum]
  1. metal (usually gold) leaf or plate (a thin sheet of, usually precious, metal)

    Late-Latin · declension-2 · neuter
  2. metal (usually gold) leaf or plate (a thin sheet of, usually precious, metal) tzitz (a golden frontlet inscribed with the Tetragrammaton, as worn by the High Priest of Israel)

    Judaism · Late-Latin · declension-2 · neuter · specifically
  3. metal (usually gold) leaf or plate (a thin sheet of, usually precious, metal) crozier (an episcopal or abbatial insigne resembling a shepherd’s crook)

    Late-Latin · Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · neuter
  4. husk (the inedible outer coat that surrounds the kernel of a cereal grain)

    Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · neuter
  5. tessera (a marble tile forming part of a mosaic)

    Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · neuter
  6. tessera (a marble tile forming part of a mosaic) paving stone (a flat stone forming part of a floor)

    Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · neuter
  7. petal (a leaflike structure forming part of a flower’s corolla)

    New-Latin · declension-2 · neuter
Where this word comes from

From Ancient Greek πέτᾰλον (pétălon, “leaf”). Unrelated to Petalicus, petallia, or Petalus.

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