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Latin
Etymology
From a Berber language; compare Tuareg tagăllăt.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
gelela f (genitive gelelae); first declension
- colocynth, bitter apple[2]
Usage notes
- This noun is sometimes erroneously interpreted as referring to the inner flesh of a colocynth due to a misinterpretation of a syntactically ambiguous sentence in Cassius Felix's De Medicina.
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- ^ Souag, Lameen (2015) “Explaining Korandjé: Language contact, plantations, and the trans-Saharan trade”, in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, number 30, number 2, John Benjamins Publishing, →DOI, pages 189-224.
- ^ gelela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.