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English
Etymology
Latin lapillus
Noun
lapillus (plural lapilli)
- A fragment of lava ejected from a volcano.
2007 May 8, Henry Fountain, “It’s Still Dark Out, So Why Are the Birds Singing Away?”, in New York Times:They also found rounded granules that are probably accretionary lapilli — volcanic hailstones, formed as material gathers in the air.
- (zoology) One of the otoliths in finfish.
Hypernyms
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from lapis (“stone”) + -illus, likely originally formed on the oblique stem as lapid- + -lus.
Pronunciation
Noun
lapillus m (genitive lapillī); second declension
- A small stone, pebble.
- Stone in the bladder, gravel, calculus.
- A precious stone, gem, jewel; marble.
- A tombstone.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “lapillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lapillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lapillus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lapillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.