campanulate
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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:

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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.
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:

Thanks, WikiMedia!
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.
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Date: 2025-03-05 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-05 04:58 pm (UTC)Very pretty. I could have used other campanulate flowers, but I couldn't pass up the genus.
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Date: 2025-03-05 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-05 04:58 pm (UTC)That's some deep-level punning there. No idea who might get it.
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Date: 2025-03-08 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-05 04:29 pm (UTC)But if it was a verb, it would mean having your head hit so hard that you hear little grawlixes rotating around your brain
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Date: 2025-03-05 04:57 pm (UTC)Not necessarily! I could mean to ring a bell in general.
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Date: 2025-03-05 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-05 05:33 pm (UTC)I gather the evidence for the bell meaning in Latin is strong enough to argue against that.
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Date: 2025-03-05 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-05 06:50 pm (UTC)Though his name does also mean "little bell"