Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

neroli

/ˈnɛɹəli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English

Syllables
ne-ro-li
IPA
/ˈnɛɹəli/
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara) used to make perfumes.

Countable; Uncountable

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Etymology

Borrowed from French néroli (“neroli”), from Nerola, a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins (1642–1722), Princess of Nerola but originally from France, is thought to have made neroli popular as a fragrance in her country of birth around 1670. The word is cognate with Italian (obsolete) nerola, neroli.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: néroli, nerola

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈnɛɹəli/
  • British English: /ˈnɪəɹəli/

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Questions

How do you pronounce neroli?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɛɹəli/.
What does neroli mean?
More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara) used to make perfumes.
Where does neroli come from?
It is traced to French.

How to pronounce neroli

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