different between cochleae vs cochlear

English

Noun

cochleae

1. plural of cochlea

Latin

Noun

cochleae

1. nominative plural of cochlea
2. genitive singular of cochlea
3. dative singular of cochlea
4. vocative plural of cochlea

English

Etymology

From cochlea +? -ar.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

cochlear (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cochleary

Translations

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• coclear
• cochle?re, cocle?re
• cochle?ris
• cochle?rium, cocle?rium, cocle?rum
• cochl. (abbreviation in medicine and pharmacy)

Etymology

cochlea (“snail”, “snail-shell”) +? -ar (suffix forming neuter nouns).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cochlear n (genitive cochle?ris); third declension

1. a spoon
2. a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)
   1. (specifically, in medicine and pharmacy) a spoonful (a measurement of dose, equal to half a cheme or ¹?₁₄₄ of a cotyla)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Derived terms

• cochlear amplum
• cochlear magnum
• cochlear medium
• cochlear parvum
• cochle?rium

Descendants

• Aragonese: cullara
• Basque: koilara
• Catalan: cullera
• Interlingua: coclear
• Interlingue: coclare
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: cuyar
  • Leonese: cuyar
  • Mirandese: colhar
• Old Portuguese: collar, cullar
  • Portuguese: colher (influenced by Old French cuiller)
    • Kabuverdianu: kudjer
  • Galician: culler (influenced by Old French cuiller)
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: kuchara
  • Spanish: cuchara
    • Cebuano: kutsara
    • Hiligaynon: kutsara
    • Papiamentu: kuchara
    • Tagalog: kutsara

References

• c?cl?ar (cochl-) in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• c?chl??r et c?chl??re in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “332/3”
• “coc(h)lear(e)” on page 341/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “cochlearis (mascul.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 194/2