areola

See also: Areola and 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/
• (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.
2. (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 (haala)

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

  Mandarin: 乳暈 (zh), 乳晕 (zh) (rǔyùn)

• Czech: prsní dvorec m, dvorec 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 (yuryun) (乳輪), 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)
• Vietnamese: quầng đỏ

anatomy: small circular area in general

• Catalan: arèola (ca) f

• Finnish: rengas (fi)

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

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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/, [aːˈre.ɔ.ɫa]

Noun

āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	āreola	āreolae
genitive	āreolae	āreolārum
dative	āreolae	āreolīs
accusative	āreolam	āreolās
ablative	āreolā	āreolīs
vocative	āreola	āreolae

Descendants

• English: areola, areole
• French: aréole
• 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, 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)

Related terms

• areolar

Further reading

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