auricula

See also: aurícula

English

Etymology

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 (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
• ōricula

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From auris (“ear”) +‎ -cula.

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

1. 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

2. 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

• auriculārius

Descendants

• English: auricle, auricula, auriculo-
• Italian: auricola
• Portuguese: aurícula

• Spanish: aurícula
• Vulgar Latin: oricla (see there for further descendants)

Noun

(deprecated template usage) auricula f

1. vocative singular of auricula

Noun

(deprecated template usage) auriculā f

1. ablative singular of auricula

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.