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puteal.

a puteal (stone enclosure or curb around a well)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈpʊ.te.aɫ]Classical-Latin[ˈpuː.te.al]
  1. a puteal (stone enclosure or curb around a well)

    declension-3 · neuter
  2. a structure of the same form marking a sacred site

    declension-3 · neuter
Where this word comes from

A nominalization of the neuter form puteāle of the adjective puteālis (“well-related, pertaining to a well”), with apocope of final e. Shortening of an originally long vowel before word-final /l/ is regular in words of more than one syllable. Equivalent to puteus (“well”) + -al.

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