fel in Latin

IPA: [ˈfɛɫ] [Classical-Latin], [ˈfɛl] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Uncertain. Either from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”), or from *bʰel-, *bʰl̥H- (“yellow”). *ǵʰ- > f- instead of the expected *h- is explained as being regular in some dialects. Cognates through the first etymon include holus and helvus; Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) and χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”); and English yellow and gold. Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*ǵʰelh₃-}}, {{unc|la}} Uncertain, {{der|la|ine-pro|*ǵʰelh₃-||green}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”), {{cog|grc|χολή||bile}} Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”), {{cog|en|yellow}} English yellow Head templates: {{la-noun|fel<3.N.I>}} fel n (genitive fellis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|fel<3.N.I>}} Forms: fellis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], fel [nominative, singular], fella [nominative, plural], fellis [genitive, singular], fellium [genitive, plural], fellum [genitive, plural], fellī [dative, singular], fellibus [dative, plural], fel [accusative, singular], fella [accusative, plural], felle [ablative, singular], fellibus [ablative, plural], fel [singular, vocative], fella [plural, vocative]

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "m or f"
      ],
      "word": "*felem"
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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      "name": "der"
    },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Either from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”), or from *bʰel-, *bʰl̥H- (“yellow”). *ǵʰ- > f- instead of the expected *h- is explained as being regular in some dialects. Cognates through the first etymon include holus and helvus; Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) and χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”); and English yellow and gold.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fellis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fel",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellis",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fel<3.N.I>"
      },
      "expansion": "fel n (genitive fellis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fel<3.N.I>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 23 6 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 22 13 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 26 21 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Bodily fluids",
          "orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gall bladder"
      ],
      "id": "en-fel-la-noun-3c9owPhP",
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        [
          "gall bladder",
          "gall bladder"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "_dis": "26 26 21 26",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gall, bile"
      ],
      "id": "en-fel-la-noun-4Z~VWrXO",
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        [
          "gall",
          "gall"
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        [
          "bile",
          "bile"
        ]
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        "neuter"
      ]
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "poison"
      ],
      "id": "en-fel-la-noun-V0Or3d36",
      "links": [
        [
          "poison",
          "poison"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "26 26 21 26",
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          "name": "Bodily fluids",
          "orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bitterness, venom"
      ],
      "id": "en-fel-la-noun-8xtLb0TG",
      "links": [
        [
          "bitterness",
          "bitterness"
        ],
        [
          "venom",
          "venom"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɛɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɛl]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fel"
}

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    "Latin 1-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin neuter nouns",
    "Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰelh₃-",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages with 19 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Bodily fluids"
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      ],
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    }
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      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "4": "bile"
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      "name": "cog"
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        "1": "en",
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      },
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Either from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”), or from *bʰel-, *bʰl̥H- (“yellow”). *ǵʰ- > f- instead of the expected *h- is explained as being regular in some dialects. Cognates through the first etymon include holus and helvus; Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) and χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”); and English yellow and gold.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fellis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
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      "form": "fel",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "fella",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellī",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "fellibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fel",
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fella",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fellibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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      },
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    }
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          "gall bladder"
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          "bile",
          "bile"
        ]
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        "neuter"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "poison"
      ],
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        [
          "poison",
          "poison"
        ]
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        "declension-3",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bitterness, venom"
      ],
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        [
          "bitterness",
          "bitterness"
        ],
        [
          "venom",
          "venom"
        ]
      ],
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        "declension-3",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɛɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɛl]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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}

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"fel" meaning in Latin

Noun

Inflected forms