gravele

Novial

Noun

gravele c (plural graveles)

gravel

Old French

Alternative forms

gravelle

Etymology

grave +‎ -ele.

Noun

gravele f (oblique plural graveles, nominative singular gravele, nominative plural graveles)

gravel (chips of stone used to cover a surface)
(medicine) calculus (small stone-like concretion)
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 202 of this essay:
  Les signes que pierre s’engendre c’est quant l’orine est trouble, espesse avec plusieurs gravelles
  The signs of a stone forming, it's when the urine is murky and thick with several small calculi

Descendants

English: gravel (borrowed)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gravele)

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