campanulate

Mar. 5th, 2025 07:37 am
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campanulate (kam-PAM-yuh-lit) - adj., shaped like a bell.


So not a verb, strictly an adjective, so no stress on the final syllable. This seems to be used only in botany, to describe flowers (and sometimes fruit?) such as the bellflowers, genus Campanula:

pretty indigo bellflowers being campanulate
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From Latin campanula, little bell, diminutive of campāna, bell, probably from Campānia, modern name Campania, the region of Italy around Naples, which in ancient times was a center of bronze production, used to make bells. So, "little Neapolitan"?

---L.

Date: 2025-03-05 03:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calzephyr
Ah, creeping bellflower, the zombie weed! It's extremely invasive here. Pretty to look at, though!

Date: 2025-03-05 04:23 pm (UTC)
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This chain of thought prompts the idea of a bellflower-shaped dish (a readily available thing in Japan; bellflower is one of the Seven Flowers Of Autumn) containing an elegant scoop of layered chocolate-vanilla-and-strawberry ice cream.

Date: 2025-03-08 01:27 am (UTC)
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That'd be so so good.

Date: 2025-03-05 04:29 pm (UTC)
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But if it was a verb, it would mean having your head hit so hard that you hear little grawlixes rotating around your brain

Date: 2025-03-05 05:22 pm (UTC)
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Isn't campania < campos, field, plains, so this "campanula" might be "small field (flower)(weed)"?

Date: 2025-03-05 05:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] full_metal_ox
Roy Campanella, however (who caught balls rather than ringing bells) was of Sicilian rather than Neapolitan descent.

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