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petiolus

petiolus

Latin

Alternative forms

peciolus

Noun

petiolus

(Late Latin) a little foot
(Late Latin) a fruit stalk; stem

Descendants

Aromanian: cicior, chicior
English: petiole
French: pétiole
Friulian: pecol
Istro-Romanian: pićor, picioru

Italian: picciolo, peziolo
Portuguese: pecíolo
Romanian: picior, pețiol
Serbo-Croatian: peteljka
Spanish: peciolo, pezón, pezuelo

References

petiolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “petiolus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.