veretilla
/wɛ.rɛˈtɪl.la/
LATINCE → TR
Çekim Tablosu
çoğulveretillae
tamlayanveretillae
Tanım
•name of some marine organism
Etimoloji
From veretrum (“penis; genitals”) + -lus (diminutive suffix). As it is first attested in Apuleius, it may have been a neologism coined by him, possibly intended as a translation of Greek βάλανος (bálanos, “glans, penis”), to refer to a type of shellfish that visually resembled a human penis. Editors differ on whether the passage where this word occurs should be read with feminine singular…