papula

English

Etymology

Latin papula (“mole”).

Noun

papula (plural papulae)

1. (medicine) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.

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2. (zoology) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for papula in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Italian

Etymology

Latin.

Noun

papula f (plural papule)

1. (pathology) papule

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pu.la/, [ˈpa.pʊ.ɫa]

Noun

papula f (genitive papulae); first declension

1. (medicine) pustule, pimple
2. mote

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	papula	papulae
genitive	papulae	papulārum
dative	papulae	papulīs
accusative	papulam	papulās
ablative	papulā	papulīs
vocative	papula	papulae

Derived terms

• papilla

Descendants

• French: papule

References

• papula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• papula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “papula”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “papula” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)