auricula
See also: aurícula
English
Etymology
Noun
auricula (plural auriculae)
- (anatomy) The external part of the ear
- (anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart
- (palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura
- (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
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Latin
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /au̯ˈri.ku.la/, [äu̯ˈrɪkʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈri.ku.la/, [äu̯ˈriːkulä]
Noun
auricula f (genitive auriculae); first declension
- The external part of the ear; ear-lap.
- 54 B.C.E. June 3, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in a letter to his brother Quintus:
- 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
- Tu, quemadmodum me censes oportere esse et in re publica et in nostris inimicitiis, ita et esse et fore auricula infima scito molliorem.
- 54 B.C.E. June 3, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in a letter to his brother Quintus:
- The ear itself.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | 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
Descendants
Noun
(deprecated template usage) auricula f
Noun
(deprecated template usage) auriculā f
References
- “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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