The story
- Latin · derived fromlāmella“small, thin plate of metal”
- English todaylamella
From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”), from lāmina (“thin plate”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).
Words from the same roots
Latinlāmella all →
lamellicornlamelliformlamellocyte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.