lamella

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ləˈmɛl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

lamella (plural lamellas or lamellae)

1. A thin, plate-like structure.
2. (mycology) The gill of a mushroom.

• lamellate, lamellar
• multilamellate
• multilamellated
• lame (“thin plate; lamina”)

• malleal

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)

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

• lamellare

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

lāmella f (genitive lāmellae); first declension

1. A small, thin plate of metal

First-declension noun.

• French: lamelle, omelette
• Galician: lamela
• Portuguese: lamela
• German: Lamelle

• “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.