Word origin
[1820–30; ‹ NL
bracteola, equiv. to L
bracte(
a) a thin plate of metal, gold leaf +
-ola -ole1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: analogue, exogenous, insider, phonetic, tetrapod-ole is a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, usually diminutives, and laterin adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages. Otherwords that use the affix -ole include: areole, centriole, vacuole