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petalum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
petalum
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A petal.

Obsolete

Etymology

From New Latin petalum, from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”). Doublet of petal.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *peth₂-, petalum, πέταλον, *pétalos

Usage

Inflected Forms

petala (plural)

Questions

What does petalum mean?
A petal.
Where does petalum come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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