auricula

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See also: Auricula and aurícula

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin auricula (“external ear; ear”). Doublet of auricle.

Pronunciation

Noun

auricula (plural auriculae or auriculas)

  1. (anatomy) The external part of the ear.
    Synonyms: pinna, auricle
  2. (anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart.
    Synonyms: atrial appendage, auricular appendix, auricle
  3. (palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura.
    Synonym: valva
  4. (horticulture, plural: auriculas) The ornamental primrose Primula auricula
    Synonym: bear's ear
    • 1919, Michael Wood, The White Island‎, page 122:
      Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, some auricula roots in the other.

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From auris (“ear”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

auricula f (genitive auriculae); first declension

  1. Diminutive of auris:
    1. (anatomy) external ear, earlap
      • 54 B.C.E., Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem‎:
        Tu, quemadmodum me censes oportere esse et in re publica et in nostris inimicitiis, ita et esse et fore auricula infima scito molliorem.
        Whatever line you think I ought to take in politics and in treating my opponents, be sure I shall take, and shall be "gentler than any ear-lap.
    2. (in general) ear
      Synonym: auris

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative auricula auriculae
Genitive auriculae auriculārum
Dative auriculae auriculīs
Accusative auriculam auriculās
Ablative auriculā auriculīs
Vocative auricula auriculae

Derived terms

Descendants

Reflexes of the early monophthongized variant ōricula:

References

  • D'Ambra, Raffaele. 1873. Vocabolario napolitano-toscano domestico di arti e mestieri. Naples: publ. by author. Page 75.
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “auricula”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 52
  1. ^ Grandgent, Charles H. 1927. From Latin to Italian: An historical outline of the phonology and morphology of the Italian language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Page 45

Further reading

  • “auricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “auricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • auricula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • auricula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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