cochlear
English
Etymology
From cochlea + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.kli.ɚ/, /ˈkɑk.li.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ), -əʊkliə(ɹ)
Adjective
cochlear (not comparable)
- (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
Derived terms
- cochlear duct
- cochlear implant
- cochlearly
- cochlear nerve
- cochlear window
- endocochlear
- extracochlear
- hypocochlear
- intracochlear
- noncochlear
- olivocochlear
- postcochlear
- retrocochlear
- sacculocochlear
- transcochlear
- vestibulocochlear
Related terms
- cochleary
Translations
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References
- “cochlear”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “cochlear”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Latin
Alternative forms
- coclear
- cochleāre, cocleāre
- cochleāris
- cochleārium, cocleārium, cocleārum
- cochl. (abbreviation in medicine and pharmacy)
Etymology
cochlea (“snail”, “snail-shell”) + -ar (suffix forming neuter nouns).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈko.kʰle.ar/, [ˈkɔkʰɫ̪eär]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.kle.ar/, [ˈkɔːkleär]
Noun
cochlear n (genitive cochleāris); third declension
- a spoon
- a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)
- (specifically, in medicine and pharmacy) a spoonful (a measurement of dose, equal to half a cheme or 1⁄144 of a cotyla)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cochlear | cochleāria |
Genitive | cochleāris | cochleārium |
Dative | cochleārī | cochleāribus |
Accusative | cochlear | cochleāria |
Ablative | cochleārī | cochleāribus |
Vocative | cochlear | cochleāria |
Derived terms
- cochlear amplum
- cochlear magnum
- cochlear medium
- cochlear parvum
- cochleārium
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cucchiaio
- Neapolitan: cucchiaro
- Sicilian: cucchiara
- → Maltese: kuċċarina
- Padanian:
- Emilian: cuciar, cuciär, cucièr
- → Piedmontese: cuciar
- → Franco-Provençal: cuchâr
- → Piedmontese: cuciar
- Ligurian: cugiâ
- Lombard: cugiar
- Piedmontese:
- Occidental: cujé, chier
- Oriental: cugé
- Romagnol: cucèra, cuceara, cucèr
- Venetian: cuciàro
- Emilian: cuciar, cuciär, cucièr
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: culyér, culyére
- Norman: quillier, quillière
- Old French: cuiller, cuilliere
- French: cuiller, cuillère
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: cullera, cullara, culler
- Catalan: cullera
- Occitan: culhièr, culhier
- Auvergnat: culhèir, cuhlèira
- Gascon: culhèr, culher, culhèra, culhera
- Vivaro-Alpine: cuilher, cuilhera, culièra
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cuyar
- Leonese: cuyar
- Mirandese: colhar
- Asturian: cuyar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cullar, collar
- Galician: collar, cullar; coller, culler (influenced by Old French cuiller)
- Portuguese: colher (influenced by Old French cuiller)
- Kabuverdianu: kudjer
- Old Spanish:
- Ladino: kuchara
- Spanish: cuchara
- Cebuano: kutsara
- Hiligaynon: kutsara
- Papiamentu: kuchara
- Tagalog: kutsara
- Old Leonese:
- Borrowings:
- Basque: koilara
- Esperanto: kulero
- Ido: kuliero
- Interlingua: coclear
- Interlingue: coclare
References
- “cŏclĕar (cochl-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cŏchlĕăr et cŏchlĕāre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “332/3”
- “coc(h)lear(e)” on page 341/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “cochlearis (mascul.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 194/2