# pellet
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US, Canada) IPA: /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpel.ɪt/
* Rhymes: -ɛlɪt

### Noun

pellet (plural pellets)
* A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
    a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
* A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
* Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
* (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
    Synonym: ogress
* One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

#### Derived terms

* ice pellet
* pellet drum
* pellet gun
* pellet moulding
* pellet stove

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: pèl·let

#### Translations
### Verb

pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)
* To form into pellets.
    Synonym: pelletize
* To strike with pellets.

### See also

| | metals | metals | main colours | main colours | main colours | main colours | less common colours | less common colours | less common colours | less common colours |
| tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
| depiction | | | | | | | | | | |
| roundel (in parentheses: semé): | bezant (bezanty) | plate (platy) | torteau (tortelly) | hurt (hurty) | pellet (pellety), ogress | pomme | golpe (golpy) | orange (semé of oranges) | orange (semé of oranges) | guze (semé of guzes) |
| goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: | (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) | d'eau (of water) | de sang (of blood) | de larmes (of tears) | de poix (of pitch) | d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) | | | | |
| | special roundel | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | additional, uncommon tinctures: |
| tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
| depiction | | | | | | | | | | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |

### Further reading

* “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Finnish
### Noun

pellet
* nominative plural of pelle

## French
### Etymology

English pellet, itself from Old French pelote (“small ball”).

### Noun

pellet m (plural pellets)
* (metallurgy, petrology) pellet
* pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often wood pellets)

#### See also

* granulé

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

pellet
* second-person plural subjunctive I of pellen

## Latin
### Verb

pellet
* third-person singular future active indicative of pellō

## Spanish
### Noun

pellet m (plural pellets)
* pellet (projectile)

### Further reading

* “pellet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pellet.

### Noun

pellet c
* (usually in the plural) a pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often feed or wood pellets)

#### See also

* brikett

### References

* pellet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pellet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)