patela

English edit

Alternative forms edit

puteli

Etymology edit

Hindi [Term?]

Noun edit

patela (plural patelas)

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges in India.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “patela”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Platea, leap at, palate, paleta, petala

Galician edit

Etymology edit

A semi-learned form from Latin patella (“a shallow pan”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /paˈtɛla̝/

Noun edit

patela f (plural patelas)

a large flat-bottomed basket
a wooden tray
limpet (Patella vulgata)
Synonyms: arneirón, lapa

Derived terms edit

pena patela

References edit

“patela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“patela” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“patela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“patela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“patela” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin patella (“kneecap”).

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈtɛ.lɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈtɛ.la/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈtɛ.lɐ/

Noun edit

patela f (plural patelas)

(anatomy) kneecap
Synonym: (dated) rótula

Hypernyms edit

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Related terms edit

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