puteal.
a puteal (stone enclosure or curb around a well)
Meaning & usage
a puteal (stone enclosure or curb around a well)
a structure of the same form marking a sacred site
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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