Unadapted borrowing fromLatinauricula(“external ear; ear”).Doublet ofauricle.

• Rhymes:-ɪkjʊlə

auricula (pluralauriculaeorauriculas)

1. (anatomy) Theexternal part of theear.

   Synonyms:pinna,auricle

2. (anatomy) A smallconicalpouch projecting from eitheratrium of theheart.

   Synonyms:atrial appendage,auricular appendix,auricle

3. (palynology) Apronouncedthickening at the corner of atriletespore, beyond the end of thelaesura.

   Synonym:valva

4. (horticulture, plural:auriculas) Anornamentalprimrose (Primula auricula)

   Synonym:bear's ear

   • 1919, Michael Wood,The White Island‎^[1], page122:

     Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, someauricula roots in the other.

• “auricula”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “auricula”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• ōricula
• ōricla(late, proscribed)

Fromauris(“ear”) +‎-cula(diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [au̯ˈrɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [au̯ˈriː.ku.la]

auricula f (genitiveauriculae);first declension

1. diminutive ofauris:
   1. (anatomy)external ear,earlap
      • 54B.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 foreauricula 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 anyear-lap.

   2. (in general)ear

      Synonym:auris

First-declension noun.

• auriculāris(adjective)
• auriculārius

Reflexes of the early monophthongized variantōricula:

• D'Ambra, Raffaele. 1873.Vocabolario napolitano-toscano domestico di arti e mestieri. Naples: publ. by author. Page 75.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “auricula”, inRomanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German),page52

• “auricula”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auricula”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "auricula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “auricula”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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