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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?k.li.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?.kli.?/, /?k?k.li.?/

Noun

cochlea (plural cochleae or cochleas)

1. (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
2. A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.

Derived terms

• cochlear

Translations

References

• “cochlea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “cochlea”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (kokhlí?s, “snail with a spiral shell”).

Alternative forms

• coclea, coclia, cochlia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.k?le.a/, [?k?k???eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.kle.a/, [?k??kl??]

Noun

cochlea f (genitive cochleae); first declension

1. snail
   1. snailshell
2. (metonymically)
   1. spiral (form of a snailshell)
   2. screw of a press
   3. Archimedes' screw, water screw, screw pump (machine for drawing water by raising it)
   4. A kind of revolving door.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• coc(h)lear
• coc(h)le?rium
• coc(h)le?tim
• coc(h)le?tus

Descendants

References

• “cochlea” on page 373 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• cochlea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cochlea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cochlea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cochlea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cochlea in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

oto- +? toxicity

Noun

ototoxicity (countable and uncountable, plural ototoxicities)

1. Damage to the ear, specifically the cochlea and sometimes the vestibular system, by a toxin

Synonyms

• cochleotoxicity