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acetable

Today it means: An ancient Roman measure, equivalent to about one eighth of a pint. Full definition →

Latin acetabulum

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Latin · learned borrowing fromacetabulum
English todayacetable

An Anglicisation of the Latin acetabulum.

Words from the same roots

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acetabulum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.