cochlear

From cochlea +‎ -ar.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.kli.ɚ/, /ˈkɑk.li.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ), -əʊkliə(ɹ)

cochlear (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

• cochleary

• “cochlear”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cochlear”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• coclear
• cochleāre, cocleāre
• cochleāris
• cochleārium, cocleārium, cocleārum
• cochl. (abbreviation in medicine and pharmacy)

cochlea (“snail”, “snail-shell”) +‎ -ar (suffix forming neuter nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kʰle.ar/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kle.ar/,

cochlear n (genitive cochleāris); third declension

1. a spoon
2. a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)
   1. (specifically, in medicine and pharmacy) a spoonful (a measurement of dose, equal to half a cheme or ¹⁄₁₄₄ of a cotyla)

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• cochlear amplum
• cochlear magnum
• cochlear medium
• cochlear parvum
• cochleārium

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cucchiaio
  • Neapolitan: cucchiaro
  • Sicilian: cucchiara
  • → Maltese: kuċċarina
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: cuciar, cuciär, cucièr
    • → Piedmontese: cuciar
      • → Franco-Provençal: cuchâr
  • Ligurian: cugiâ
  • Lombard: cugiar
  • Piedmontese:

    Occidental: cujé, chier

    Oriental: cugé

  • Romagnol: cucèra, cuceara, cucèr
  • Venetan: cuciàro
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: culyér, culyére
  • Norman: quillier, quillière
  • Old French: cuiller, cuilliere
    • French: cuiller, cuillère
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cullera, cullara, culler
  • Catalan: cullera
  • Occitan: culhièr, culhier

    Auvergnat: culhèir, cuhlèira

    Gascon: culhèr, culher, culhèra, culhera

    Vivaro-Alpine: cuilher, cuilhera, culièra

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: cuyar
      • Leonese: cuyar
    • Mirandese: colhar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cullar, collar
    • Galician: collar, cullar; coller, culler (influenced by Old French cuiller)
    • Portuguese: colher (influenced by Old French cuiller)
    • Kabuverdianu: kudjer
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: kuchara
    • Spanish: cuchara
      • Cebuano: kutsara
      • Hiligaynon: kutsara
      • Papiamentu: kuchara
      • Tagalog: kutsara
• Borrowings:
  • Basque: koilara
  • Esperanto: kulero
    • Ido: kuliero
  • Interlingua: coclear

• “cŏclĕar (cochl-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cŏchlĕăr et cŏchlĕāre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “332/3”
• “coc(h)lear(e)” on page 341/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cochlearis (mascul.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 194/2