auricula

English

Etymology

From Latin auricula

Noun

auricula (plural auriculae)

1. (anatomy) The external part of the ear
2. (anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart
3. (palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura
4. (horticulture, plural: auriculas) The ornamental primrose Primula auricula
   • 1919, Michael Wood, The White Island^[1], page 122:

     Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, some auricula roots in the other.

Synonyms

• (external part of the ear): pinna, auricle
• (pouch projecting from the atrium): atrial appendage, auricular appendix, auricle
• (thickening of a trilete spore): valva
• (primrose): bear's ear, Auricula

Related terms

• auricular
• auriculate

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Latin

Alternative forms

• oricla
• ōricula

Etymology

From auris (“ear”) +‎ -culus.

Noun

auricula (genitive auriculae); f, first declension

1. The external part of the ear; ear-lap.
   • 54 B.C.: Marcus Tullius Cicero, letter to his brother Quintus, 3 June

     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." — 1899-1912, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, The letters of Cicero

2. The ear itself.
   • 3rd–4th C. A.D.: Appendix Probi

     auris non oricla

     [Use] auris, not oricla.

3. vocative singular of auricula

auriculā f

1. ablative singular of auricula

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	auricula	auriculae
genitive	auriculae	auriculārum
dative	auriculae	auriculīs
accusative	auriculam	auriculās
ablative	auriculā	auriculīs
vocative	auricula	auriculae

Synonyms

• (ear): auris

Derived terms

• auriculārius

Descendants

Aragonese: orella Aromanian: ureaclje Asturian: oreya English: auricle, auricula, auriculo- Catalan: orella Dalmatian: oracla French: oreille Friulian: orele, vorele Galician: orella

Italian: orecchio Jèrriais: ouothelle Occitan: aurelha Portuguese: orelha Romanian: ureche Romansch: ureglia, uraglia Sardinian: olicra, oricia, oricla, oricra, ulicra Sicilian: ricchi, auricchia, aricchia Spanish: oreja