auricula

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See also: Auricula and aurícula

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

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[1], page 122:
      Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, some auricula roots in the other.

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Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[2]:
        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[edit]

First-declension noun.

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

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Descendants[edit]

Reflexes of the early monophthongized variant ōricula:

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • “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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