pellet

pellet
\ \ [14] Etymologically, a pellet is a ‘little ball’. It comes via Old French pelote (a relative of Spanish pelotaball’, from which the name of the Basque ball-game pelota [19] comes) from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, a diminutive form of Latin pilaball’ (source of English pill [15] and pileshaemorrhoids’ [15]). Peltthrow things at’ [15] may have originated as a contraction of pellet (although a possible alternative source is Latin pultārehit’); and platoon comes from a diminutive form of French pelote.
\ \ Cf.PELOTA, PELT, PILES, PLATOON

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