perla

• perlla

perla f (plural perles)

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

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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɾ.lə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɾ.la/

perla f (plural perles)

1. pearl
2. (heraldry) pall

perla f

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

• perlový

• perleť
• perlit

• lepra
• raple

From Latin perla.

perla f (genitive singular perlu, plural perlur)

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

• Homophones: perlas, perlât

perla

1. third-person singular past historic of perler

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛrtla/
• Rhymes: -ɛrtla

perla f (genitive singular perlu, nominative plural perlur)

1. pearl

• gull af manni

perla (plural perlas)

1. pearl

Of uncertain etymology. See pearl.

perla f (plural perle)

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

perla (invariable)

1. pearl (attributive)

• pastiglia
• pillola
• castroneria
• sfondone

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.

perla f (invariable)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.la/, [ˈpɛr.ɫa]

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.

First declension.

• 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”

• perlen

perla m or f

1. definite feminine singular of perle

perla f

1. definite singular of perle

perla f (plural perlas)

1. (heraldry) pall

Borrowed from German Perle.

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

pȇrla f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑рла)

1. pearl
2. bead

From Latin perla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛrɫa/

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)

• perlový
• perlička

• perla in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• IPA^(key): /ˈperla/

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

perla f (plural perlas)

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

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.

perla f (uncountable)

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

• (5-point type): parisienne

See the etymology of the main entry.

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.

• pelar, rapel

• “perla” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.