areola

See also: aréola

English

A woman's breasts, with the areola indicated.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ārea. Doublet of areole.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈəʊ.lə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌɛ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/

Noun

areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)

1. (anatomy) The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae.
   • 2014 April 28, Albert Sun, “From Volunteers, a DNA Database”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Working with the Personal Genome Project, she has collected measurements and images of the areolas of 150 people so far. One initial finding is that the diameter of the areola seems unrelated to the number of areola glands — the small bumps in the skin surrounding the nipple.

2. (by extension, anatomy) Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.
3. (anatomy) Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.
   • 1847, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 51, page 329:

     The tubes or elongated spaces of which we have spoken, are not distended with any fluid, but are merely moistened in the same way as the areolas of ordinary areolar tissue.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with aureola.

Derived terms

• areola mammae
• areolar

Related terms

• areole
• area

Translations

circle around the nipple

• Arabic: هَالَة‎ f (hāla)

  Egyptian Arabic: هالة‎ f (hāla)

• Bengali: অ্যারিওলা (êriola)
• Catalan: arèola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳暈 (zh), 乳晕 (zh) (rǔyùn)

• Czech: prsní dvorec m, dvorec (cs) m, areola f
• Estonian: nännipiha
• Finnish: nänninpiha
• French: aréole (fr)
• German: Warzenhof m
• Greek: άλως (el) f (álos)
• Haitian Creole: areol
• Hungarian: kis felület
• Icelandic: vörtubaugur m
• Ido: areolo (io)
• Ilocano: binaklay

• Japanese: 乳輪 (にゅうりん, nyūrin)
• Korean: 유륜(乳輪) (yuryun), 그물코 틈 (geumulko teum)
• Lithuanian: areolė f
• Maori: wāhi pūpango
• Persian: هاله‎ (fa) (hâle)
• Polish: otoczka f
• Portuguese: aréola (pt)
• Russian: арео́ла (ru) f (areóla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ареола f

  Roman: areola (sh) f

• Slovak: prsný dvorec m, dvorec m
• Spanish: areola (es) f
• Swedish: vårtgård (sv) c
• Tamil: சிற்றிடம் (ciṟṟiṭam)
• Telugu: చూచుకము (te) (cūcukamu)
• Turkish: areola (tr), meme aylası
• Vietnamese: quầng đỏ

anatomy: small circular area in general

• Catalan: arèola (ca) f

• Finnish: rengas (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} स्तनिकाग्रे (stanikāgre)

Further reading

• areola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.reːˈoː.laː/
• Hyphenation: are‧ola

Noun

areola f (plural areola's or areolae)

1. (anatomy) areola (circle around a nipple)

   Synonym: tepelhof

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English areola), ultimately from Latin āreola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑreolɑ/, [ˈɑre̞ˌo̞lɑ]
• Rhymes: -olɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧re‧o‧la

Noun

areola

1. Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)

Declension

Inflection of areola (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		areola	areolat
genitive		areolan	areolien
partitive		areolaa	areolia
illative		areolaan	areoliin
		singular	plural
nominative		areola	areolat
accusative	nom.	areola	areolat
	gen.	areolan
genitive		areolan	areolien areolainrare
partitive		areolaa	areolia
inessive		areolassa	areolissa
elative		areolasta	areolista
illative		areolaan	areoliin
adessive		areolalla	areolilla
ablative		areolalta	areolilta
allative		areolalle	areolille
essive		areolana	areolina
translative		areolaksi	areoliksi
instructive		—	areolin
abessive		areolatta	areolitta
comitative		—	areolineen

Possessive forms of areola (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	areolani	areolamme
2nd person	areolasi	areolanne
3rd person	areolansa

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.

Noun

areola f (plural areole)

1. areola

Related terms

• area

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive form of ārea.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aːˈre.o.la/, [äːˈreɔɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈre.o.la/, [äˈrɛːolä]

Noun

āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension

1. a small open place; courtyard
2. a small garden bed or cultivated place

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	āreola	āreolae
Genitive	āreolae	āreolārum
Dative	āreolae	āreolīs
Accusative	āreolam	āreolās
Ablative	āreolā	āreolīs
Vocative	āreola	āreolae

Descendants

• Catalan: arèola
• English: areola, areole
• French: aréole
• Galician: aréola
• Italian: aiuola, areola
• Portuguese: aréola
• Spanish: areola

References

• “areola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• areola 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)
• areola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• aréola

Etymology

From Latin āreola.

Noun

areola f (plural areolas)

1. (anatomy) areola (the coloured circle around a nipple)

   Synonym: aureola

Related terms

• areolar

Further reading

• “areola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014