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Latin
Etymology
From petīlus.
Pronunciation
Noun
petīlium n (genitive petīliī or petīlī); second declension
- an autumnal flower
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “petilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- petilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.