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pet⋅rol

  [pe-truhl] noun, verb, -rolled, -rol⋅ling.
–noun
1. British. gasoline.
2. Archaic. petroleum.
–verb (used with object)
3. British. to clean with gasoline.
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Origin:
1590–1600; < MF petrole < ML petroleum petroleum

petrol.

 
petrology.
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pet·rol   (pět'rəl)   
n.   Chiefly British
Gasoline.

[French (essence de) pétrole, (essence of) petroleum, gasoline, from Old French petrole, petroleum, from Medieval Latin petrōleum; see petroleum.]
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Word Origin & History

petrol 
1895, "gasoline," from Fr. pétrol (1892); earlier used (1585) in ref. to the unrefined substance, from M.Fr. petrole "petroleum," from O.Fr. (13c.), from M.L. petroleum (see petroleum).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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