different between barbule vs radiolus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin barbula (“little beard”).

Noun

barbule (plural barbules)

1. (botany) A small barb or beard.
2. (ornithology) Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin barbula (“little beard”).

Noun

barbule f (plural barbules)

1. barbule (or any similar form)

English

Noun

radiolus (plural radioli)

1. (ornithology) The barbule of a feather

Latin

Etymology

From radius (“ray, beam”) +? -olus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ra?di.o.lus/, [rä?d?i????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ra?di.o.lus/, [r??d?i??lus]

Noun

radiolus m (genitive radiol?); second declension

1. small, feeble sunbeam
2. kind of long olive
3. kind of plant resembling a fern

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: radiolus

References

• radiolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• radiolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette