areola
See also: aréola
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin āreola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ārea. Doublet of areole.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈəʊ.lə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌɛ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/
- Rhymes: -iələ, -əʊlə
Noun edit
areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)
- (anatomy) The circular, darkly pigmented area surrounding a nipple; the areola mammae.
- 2014 April 28, Albert Sun, “From Volunteers, a DNA Database”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
- (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.
- (botany) Any of the small spaces between fibres of the tissues of certain lichens.
- (botany) Small patches, bearing the spines and glochids characteristic of the stems of cacti.
- 1876 Richard E. Kunzé Cereus bonplandii (Parmet). Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York p.129
- Every pulvillus or areola is studded with from six to eight spines... From these pulvilli, also called spiniferous areola, or very close to it, burst the young bud or flower. If the latter, it is then called the floriferous areola, and the point where the epidermis bursts is of a deep pink tinge.
- 1876 Richard E. Kunzé Cereus bonplandii (Parmet). Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York p.129
Usage notes edit
- Not to be confused with aureola.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
circle around the nipple
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Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism (see English areola), ultimately from Latin āreola.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
areola
- Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)
Declension edit
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 | ||
abessive | areolatta | areolitta | ||
instructive | — | areolin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin āreola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.
Noun edit
areola f (plural areole)
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive form of ārea.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aːˈre.o.la/, [äːˈreɔɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈre.o.la/, [äˈrɛːolä]
Noun edit
āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension
- a small open place; courtyard
- a small garden bed or cultivated place
Declension edit
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 edit
References edit
- “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
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
areola f (plural areolas)
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Further reading edit
- “areola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014