puteal

From Latin puteal, from puteālis, from puteus (“well”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjs”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːti.əl/

puteal (plural puteals)

1. (architecture) An enclosure around a well to prevent people from falling into it.

1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering

• Paulet, tulpae

A nominalization of the neuter form puteāle of the adjective puteālis (“well-related, pertaining to a well”), with apocope of final e. Shortening of an originally long vowel before word-final /l/ is regular in words of more than one syllable. Equivalent to puteus (“well”) +‎ -al.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.te.al/, [ˈpʊt̪eäɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.te.al/, [ˈpuːt̪eäl]

puteal n (genitive puteālis); third declension

1. a puteal (stone enclosure or curb around a well)
2. a structure of the same form marking a sacred site

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• bidental

• “puteal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puteal”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puteal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.