perula

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English

Etymology

From Latin pērula, diminutive of pera (“wallet”), from Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra). Compare French pérule.

Noun

perula (plural perulae)

  1. (botany) One of the scales of a leaf bud.
  2. (botany) A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchids.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

The diminutive form of pēra (“a bag”, “a wallet”), formed as pēra +‎ -ula (suffix forming feminine diminutives).

Pronunciation

Noun

pērula f (genitive pērulae); first declension

  1. a little wallet, a pocket
    1. in literal use
    2. (transferred sense, comical) a tumescent womb or paunch
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pērula pērulae
Genitive pērulae pērulārum
Dative pērulae pērulīs
Accusative pērulam pērulās
Ablative pērulā pērulīs
Vocative pērula pērulae

References

Etymology 2

From pirum (“a pear”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

perula f (genitive perulae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) pearl (shelly concretion, usually found in oysters, and often valued in a manner akin to semi-precious gems)
    • 1272, an unknown source in The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), viii, page 269:
      Una Perla ad modum camahuti.
      A pearl in the manner of a cameo.
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative perula perulae
Genitive perulae perulārum
Dative perulae perulīs
Accusative perulam perulās
Ablative perulā perulīs
Vocative perula perulae
Synonyms
Descendants

English pearl and its cognates are of uncertain etymology and may alternatively derive from Medieval Latin *pernula, a diminutive of perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”).

Borrowings

Ultimately from perula (or *pernula) but of uncertain intermediate borrowings:

References

  • “perula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • perula 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)
  • perula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 794/2, “perula”
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