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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?reola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ?rea. Doublet of areole.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???i.?.l?/, /?æ.?i???.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???i.?.l?/, /??.?i?o?.l?/, /?æ.?i?o?.l?/

Noun

areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)

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

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with aureola.

Derived terms

• areola mammae
• areolar

Related terms

• areole
• area

Translations

Further reading

• areola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?reola, diminutive of ?rea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.re??o?.la?/
• Hyphenation: are?ola

Noun

areola f (plural areola's or areolae)

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

   Synonym: tepelhof

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??reol?/, [??re??o?l?]
• Rhymes: -ol?
• Syllabification: a?re?o?la

Noun

areola

1. Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?reola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.

Noun

areola f (plural areole)

1. areola

Related terms

• area

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive form of ?rea.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a??re.o.la/, [ä???e???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?re.o.la/, [??????l?]

Noun

?reola f (genitive ?reolae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• 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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• aréola

Etymology

From Latin ?reola.

Noun

areola f (plural areolas)

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

   Synonym: aureola

Related terms

• areolar

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

hand +? bra

Noun

handbra (plural handbras)

1. (colloquial) The act of covering the nipples and areolae with the hands, sometimes used for modesty in photographic poses.

Translations

Further reading

• handbra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia