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Lamella
La-mel′la
,Noun.
pl. L.
Lamellæ
(#)
, E. Lamellas
(#)
. A thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.
Definition 2024
lamella
lamella
English
Noun
lamella (plural lamellas or lamellae)
Related terms
- lamellate
- multilamellate
- multilamellated
Translations
gill of a mushroom — see gill
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”).
Noun
lamella f (plural lamelle)
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
lāmina (“thin plate”) + -ella (“diminutive suffix”)
Noun
lāmella f (genitive lāmellae); first declension
Declension
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lāmella | lāmellae |
| genitive | lāmellae | lāmellārum |
| dative | lāmellae | lāmellīs |
| accusative | lāmellam | lāmellās |
| ablative | lāmellā | lāmellīs |
| vocative | lāmella | lāmellae |
References
- lamella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lamella”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.