mammilla

English

Etymology

Latin mammilla, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).

Noun

mammilla (plural mammillae)

  1. (anatomy) The nipple.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mammilla in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

mammilla f (genitive mammillae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of mamilla

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mammilla mammillae
Genitive mammillae mammillārum
Dative mammillae mammillīs
Accusative mammillam mammillās
Ablative mammillā mammillīs
Vocative mammilla mammillae

References
  • mammilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mammilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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