areola
See also: aréola
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin āreola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ārea. Doublet of areole.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈəʊ.lə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌɛ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/
- Rhymes: -iələ, -əʊlə
Noun
areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)
- (anatomy) The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae.
- 2014 April 28, Albert Sun, “From Volunteers, a DNA Database”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Working with the Personal Genome Project, she has collected measurements and images of the areolas of 150 people so far. One initial finding is that the diameter of the areola seems unrelated to the number of areola glands — the small bumps in the skin surrounding the nipple.
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- (by extension, anatomy) Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.
- (anatomy) Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.
- 1847, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 51, page 329:
- The tubes or elongated spaces of which we have spoken, are not distended with any fluid, but are merely moistened in the same way as the areolas of ordinary areolar tissue.
- 1847, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 51, page 329:
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with aureola.
Derived terms
- areola mammae
- areolar
Related terms
- areole
- area
Translations
circle around the nipple
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anatomy: small circular area in general
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Further reading
areola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌaː.reːˈoː.laː/
- Hyphenation: are‧ola
Noun
areola f (plural areola's or areolae)
- (anatomy) areola (circle around a nipple)
- Synonym: tepelhof
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English areola), ultimately from Latin āreola.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑreolɑ/, [ˈɑre̞ˌo̞lɑ]
- Rhymes: -olɑ
- Syllabification(key): a‧re‧o‧la
Noun
areola
- Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)
Declension
Inflection of areola (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | areola | areolat | |
genitive | areolan | areolien | |
partitive | areolaa | areolia | |
illative | areolaan | areoliin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | areola | areolat | |
accusative | nom. | areola | areolat |
gen. | areolan | ||
genitive | areolan | areolien areolainrare | |
partitive | areolaa | areolia | |
inessive | areolassa | areolissa | |
elative | areolasta | areolista | |
illative | areolaan | areoliin | |
adessive | areolalla | areolilla | |
ablative | areolalta | areolilta | |
allative | areolalle | areolille | |
essive | areolana | areolina | |
translative | areolaksi | areoliksi | |
instructive | — | areolin | |
abessive | areolatta | areolitta | |
comitative | — | areolineen |
Possessive forms of areola (type koira) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | areolani | areolamme |
2nd person | areolasi | areolanne |
3rd person | areolansa |
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin āreola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.
Noun
areola f (plural areole)
- areola
Related terms
- area
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive form of ārea.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aːˈre.o.la/, [äːˈreɔɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈre.o.la/, [äˈrɛːolä]
Noun
āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension
- a small open place; courtyard
- a small garden bed or cultivated place
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | āreola | āreolae |
Genitive | āreolae | āreolārum |
Dative | āreolae | āreolīs |
Accusative | āreolam | āreolās |
Ablative | āreolā | āreolīs |
Vocative | āreola | āreolae |
Descendants
- Catalan: arèola
- English: areola, areole
- French: aréole
- Galician: aréola
- Italian: aiuola, areola
- Portuguese: eiró, Eiró, → aréola
- Sicilian: arèula
- Spanish: areola
References
- “areola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- areola 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)
- areola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish
Alternative forms
- aréola
Etymology
From Latin āreola.
Noun
areola f (plural areolas)
- (anatomy) areola (the coloured circle around a nipple)
- Synonym: aureola
Related terms
- areolar
Further reading
- “areola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014