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verruculum.

bolt (metal bar for keeping something closed)

10 characters4 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun/verˈroklu/
  1. bolt (metal bar for keeping something closed)

    Proto-Italo-Western-Romance · reconstruction
Where this word comes from

From vericulum (“little rod”), with the ending changed to -uculum and with /rr/ taken from ferrum (“iron”). The first change is attested via Late Latin veruclātus (“locked, bolted”, found in Augustine), implying a derived verb *veruculāre.

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