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This is another one of those words that suffered very little in their journey. A word that described part of a flower as ‘flat leaf’ in Ancient Greek and doubled as ‘thin metal plate’ remained the same in modern Greek but nowadays doubles as ‘horseshoe’. Latinised it became an official Roman word between the 3rd and 6th century and passed into English intact In the 1700s but keeping only the first meaning . ΠΕΤΑΛΟ/PETAL

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