perla

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See also: Perla, pèrla, perlă, and perła

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Noun

perla f (plural perles)

  1. pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

Catalan

Etymology

Unknown, probably based on Vulgar Latin *pernula, diminutive of Latin perna, a kind of oyster. Cognate with Italian perla, French perle and Spanish perla.

Pronunciation

Noun

perla f (plural perles)

  1. pearl
  2. (heraldry) pall

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish perla.

Noun

perla

  1. pearl

Czech

Noun

perla f

  1. pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

Declension

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Derived terms

Anagrams

Faroese

Etymology

From Latin perla.

Noun

perla f (genitive singular perlu, plural perlur)

  1. pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

Declension

Declension of perla
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative perla perlan perlur perlurnar
accusative perlu perluna perlur perlurnar
dative perlu perluni perlum perlunum
genitive perlu perlunnar perla perlanna

French

Pronunciation

Verb

perla

  1. third-person singular past historic of perler

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse perla, a borrowing from Middle Low German perle, from Old Saxon perula, from Medieval Latin perla.

Pronunciation

Noun

perla f (genitive singular perlu, nominative plural perlur)

  1. pearl

Declension

declension of perla
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative perla perlan perlur perlurnar
accusative perlu perluna perlur perlurnar
dative perlu perlunni perlum perlunum
genitive perlu perlunnar perla/perlna perlanna/perlnanna

See also

Interlingua

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

perla (plural perlas)

  1. pearl

Italian

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Etymology 1

Of uncertain etymology. See pearl.

Noun

perla f (plural perle)

  1. pearl (also figuratively).
  2. pill
  3. mistake

Adjective

perla (invariable)

  1. pearl (attributive)

See also

Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French perle, the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

Noun

perla f (uncountable)

  1. (printing, dated) A small size of type, standardized as 4 point.

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

perla f (genitive perlae); first declension

  1. Alternative spelling of perula
    • 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative perla perlae
Genitive perlae perlārum
Dative perlae perlīs
Accusative perlam perlās
Ablative perlā perlīs
Vocative perla perlae

References

  • Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 789/1, “perla”

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

perla m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of perle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

perla f

  1. definite singular of perle

Portuguese

Noun

perla f (plural perlas)

  1. (heraldry) pall

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Perle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pêːrla/
  • Hyphenation: per‧la

Noun

pȇrla f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑рла)

  1. pearl
  2. bead

Declension

Declension of perla
singular plural
nominative perla perle
genitive perle perla / perli
dative perli perlama
accusative perlu perle
vocative perlo perle
locative perli perlama
instrumental perlom perlama

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin perla.

Pronunciation

Noun

perla f (genitive singular perly, nominative plural perly, genitive plural perál, periel, declension pattern of žena)

  1. pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

Declension

Declension of perla
singular plural
nominative perla perly
genitive perly perál, periel
dative perle perlám
accusative perlu perly
locative perle perlách
instrumental perlou perlami

Derived terms

References

  • “perla”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeɾla/ [ˈpeɾ.la]

Etymology 1

Unknown, but cognate with Italian perla, French perle and Portuguese pérola. See pearl. The usual Latin word for a pearl was margarīta.

Noun

perla f (plural perlas)

  1. pearl
  2. bead
  3. (heraldry) pall
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French perle, the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

Noun

perla f (uncountable)

  1. (printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 or 5 point
Synonyms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

perla

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of perlar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of perlar.
  3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of perlar.

Anagrams

Further reading

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