pellet: [14] Etymologically, a pellet is a ‘little ball’. It comes via Old French pelote (a relative of Spanish pelota ‘ball’, from which the name of the Basque ball-game pelota [19] comes) from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, a diminutive form of Latin pila ‘ball’ (source of English pill [15] and piles ‘haemorrhoids’ [15]). Pelt ‘throw things at’ [15] may have originated as a contraction of pellet (although a possible alternative source is Latin pultāre ‘hit’); and platoon comes from a diminutive form of French pelote. => pelota, pelt, piles, platoon
pellet (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French pelote "small ball" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila "ball, playing ball, the game of ball," perhaps originally "ball of hair," from pilus "hair" (see pile (n.3)).
pellet (v.)
"to form into pellets," 1590s, from pellet (n.).
例文
1. He was shot in the head by an air gun pellet .
彼はエアガンの弾丸に頭を撃たれた。
2.A beetle was rolling a pellet of dried dung up the hill.
1匹の糞殻が1つの糞ボールを山に転がしている。
3.Such designs were square，diamond，triangular or hexagonal shaped pellet areas.
これらのデザインは正方形、菱形、三角形または六角形の小格領域.
4.A porous pellet was fabricated by the well-known wash-out process.
よく知られた浸漬方法で穴付き錠剤を製造する。
5.Each pellet was placed in the end of a shotshell.