axilla

See also: axil·la

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin axilla (“side, armpit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪlə/

Noun

axilla (plural axillae)

1. The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
2. (botany, uncommon) Alternative form of axil

Translations

armpit

• Catalan: aixella (ca) f, axil·la f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腋窩／腋窝 (zh) (yèwō), 腋窝 (zh) (yèwō), 腋下 (zh) (yèxià), 胳肢窩／胳肢窝 (zh) (gāzhiwō), 胳肢窝 (zh) (gēzhiwō)

• Dutch: axilla, oksel (nl)
• Esperanto: akselo (eo), subbrako
• French: aisselle (fr) f
• German: Achselhöhle (de) f
• Greek: μασχάλη (el) f (mascháli)
• Icelandic: handarkriki (is) m, holhönd f
• Ido: axelo (io)
• Irish: ascaill f
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• Italian: ascella (it)
• Japanese: 腋窩 (ja) (えきか, ekika)
• Latin: axilla
• Occitan: aissèla (oc) f
• Portuguese: axila (pt)
• Russian: подмы́шечная впа́дина f (podmýšečnaja vpádina), подмы́шка (ru) f (podmýška), па́зуха (ru) f (pázuxa) (also: bosom)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пазух, пазухо

  Roman: pazuh (sh), pazuho (sh)

• Spanish: sobaco (es) m
• Turkish: aksilla, koltuk altı (tr)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• ascella (Late and Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Diminutive form of āla (“wing”) (from its earlier form axla). Confer with similarly formed māla - maxilla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aːkˈsil.la/, [äːkˈs̠ɪlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /akˈsil.la/, [äkˈsilːä]

Noun

āxilla f (genitive āxillae); first declension

1. little wing
2. axilla, armpit

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	āxilla	āxillae
Genitive	āxillae	āxillārum
Dative	āxillae	āxillīs
Accusative	āxillam	āxillās
Ablative	āxillā	āxillīs
Vocative	āxilla	āxillae

Descendants

• Catalan: aixella, axil·la
• Corsican: ascedda, ascella
• Dalmatian: scul
• Dutch: axilla
• English: axilla
• French: aisselle
• Irish: ascaill
• Italian: ascella

• Occitan: aissèla, eishèra
• Portuguese: axila
• Romanian: axilă
• Sicilian: ascidda, scidda
• Spanish: axila
• Turkish: aksilla
• Venetian: asela

References

• “axilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “axilla”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray