areola

Borrowed from Latin āreola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ārea. Doublet of areole.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌɛ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/

areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)

1. (anatomy) The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae.
2. (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.
3. (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.

• Not to be confused with aureola.

• areola mammae
• areolar

• areole
• area

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑreolɑ/, [ˈɑre̞o̞lɑ]
• Hyphenation: a‧re‧o‧la

areola

1. Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)

Borrowed from Latin āreola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.

areola f (plural areole)

1. areola

• area

Diminutive form of ārea.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aːˈre.o.la/, [aːˈre.ɔ.ɫa]

āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension

1. a small open place; courtyard
2. a small garden bed or cultivated place

First declension.

• English: areola, areole
• French: aréole
• Italian: aiuola, areola
• Portuguese: aréola
• Spanish: areola

• 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, 1883–1887)
• areola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• aréola

From Latin āreola.

areola f (plural areolas)

1. (anatomy) areola (the coloured circle around a nipple)

• areolar

• “areola” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.