different between ferula vs perula

English

Etymology

Latin ferula (“giant fennel (whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys); rod, whip”), from ferire (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???l?/

Noun

ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae)

1. (obsolete) A ferule.

   • He humbles with a ferula the tall ones

2. (archaic) A stroke from a cane.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p.50)

     And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulae you are to get.

3. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

Translations

Anagrams

• Laufer, earful

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain but perhaps connected to fest?ca (“stalk, straw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe.ru.la/, [?f?????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.ru.la/, [?f???ul?]

Noun

ferula f (genitive ferulae); first declension

1. cane
2. giant fennel or its stalk
3. vocative singular of ferula

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: férule
• Spanish: férula, cañaherla, cañaheja
• Translingual: Ferula

Noun

ferul? f

1. ablative singular of ferula

References

• ferula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ferula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ferula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Latin p?rula, diminutive of pera (“wallet”), from Ancient Greek [Term?]. Compare French pérule.

Noun

perula (plural perulae)

1. (botany) One of the scales of a leaf bud.
2. (botany) A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchids.

Anagrams

• epural, pleura

Latin

Etymology 1

The diminutive form of p?ra (“a bag”, “a wallet”), formed as p?ra +? -ula (suffix forming feminine diminutives).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pe?.ru.la/, [?pe?????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pe.ru.la/, [?p???ul?]

Noun

p?rula f (genitive p?rulae); first declension

1. a little wallet, a pocket
   1. in literal use
   2. (transferred sense, comical) a tumescent womb or paunch

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• p?r?la in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

From pirum (“a pear”).

Alternative forms

• perla, perna, pella

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pe.ru.la/, [?p?????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pe.ru.la/, [?p???ul?]

Noun

perula f (genitive perulae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) pearl (shelly concretion, usually found in oysters, and often valued in a manner akin to semi-precious gems)
   • 1272, an unknown source in The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), viii, page 269:

     Una Perla ad modum camahuti.

     A pearl in the manner of a cameo.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (pearl): margar?ta (Classical)

References

• perula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• perula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• perula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 794/2, “perula”