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From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”), from lāmina (“thin plate”) +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix).

lamella (plural lamellas or lamellae)

  1. A thin, plate-like structure.

    • 1943, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, ‎John West Wells, Revision of the Suborders Families, and Genera of the Scleractinia, page 32:

      The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.

    Synonyms: lame, lamina
    1. (mycology) The gill of a mushroom.

gill of a mushroom — see gill

From German Lamelle, from French lamelle, from Latin lāmina.[1]

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɒmɛlːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: la‧mel‧la
  • Rhymes: -lɒ

lamella (plural lamellák)

  1. small, thin plate made of metal or plastic
  2. (photography) blade (one of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera)
  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”).

  • IPA(key): /laˈmɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: la‧mèl‧la

lamella f (plural lamelle)

  1. thin plate, lamella
  2. (botany) gill, lamella
  3. (electronics) wafer

lāmina (“thin plate”) +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix)

lāmella f (genitive lāmellae); first declension

  1. A small, thin plate of metal

First-declension noun.

  • “lamella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lamella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.