caveola

caveola

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin caveola, constructed from cavea (“hollow, cavity; cage”) +‎ -ola (diminutive suffix). Doublet of jail, which is from Late Latin caveola, an earlier, natural formation of the same term. More at cave, cavum, cava and cage.

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

Noun

caveola (plural caveolae)

1. A small (50–100 nanometer) invagination of the plasma membrane in many vertebrate cell types.

Related terms

• caveogenesis
• caveolar
• caveolin

Translations

small invagination of the plasma membrane

Finnish: kaveoli Spanish: caveola f

Anagrams

• coaeval, coæval

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Italian

Noun

caveola f (plural caveole)

1. caveola

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Latin

Etymology

From cavea (“cage”) +‎ -ola (diminutive ending). Attested in glosses from late antiquity.[1]

Noun

caveola f (genitive caveolae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) little cage

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: gabbiuola; cagiuolo m (archaic)
  • Neapolitan:

    caggiola (Matera)

    cajola (Molise, Sora)

    gaggiola (Tegiano)

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: gabiola; gabieul m
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: jaiole (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cajola ⇒? garjola
  • Gascon: cujòla, cojòla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: gayola
    • →? Spanish: gayola
  • Galician: gaiola
  • Portuguese: gaiola

References

• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “jaula”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 501

1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “caveŏla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 556

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Spanish

Noun

caveola f (plural caveolas)

1. caveola

Related terms

• caveolina