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auricula

See also: Auricula and aurícula

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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) An 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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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    Noun

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    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

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    First-declension noun.

    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

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    Reflexes of the early monophthongized variant ōricula:

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    • 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

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    • “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, 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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