auricula

Latin auricula

auricula (plural auriculae)

1. (anatomy) The external part of the ear
2. (anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart
3. (palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura
4. (horticulture, plural: auriculas) The ornamental primrose Primula auricula
   • 1919, Michael Wood, The White Island‎, page 122:

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

• (external part of the ear): pinna, auricle
• (pouch projecting from the atrium): atrial appendage, auricular appendix, auricle
• (thickening of a trilete spore): valva
• (primrose): bear's ear, Auricula

• auricular
• auriculate

• oricla (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
• ōricula

From auris (“ear”) +‎ -cula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈri.ku.la/, [au̯ˈrɪ.kʊ.ɫa]

auricula f (genitive auriculae); first declension

1. The external part of the ear; ear-lap.
   • 54 BCE June 3, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in a letter to his brother Quintus:

     Tu, quemadmodum me censes oportere esse et in re publica et in nostris inimicitiis, ita et esse et fore auricula 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 any ear-lap." — 1899-1912, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, The letters of Cicero

2. The ear itself.

auricula f

1. vocative singular of auricula

auriculā f

1. ablative singular of auricula

First declension.

• (ear): auris

• auriculārius

• auricula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auricula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auricula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• auricula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette