different between ear vs saccule

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/, /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: -eer

Etymology 1

From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ?are (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *au??, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h??ws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Russian ???? (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek ??? (oûs), Old Armenian ????? (unkn), and Persian ???? (huš)).

Noun

ear (plural ears)

1. (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
2. (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
3. (countable, slang) A police informant.
   • 1976, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, The Enforcer.

     No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.

4. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.

   • songs […] not all ungrateful to thine ear

5. The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     Dionysius […] would give no ear to his suit.
6. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle.
7. (architecture) An acroterium.
8. (architecture) A crossette.
9. (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
   • 2006, Richard Weiner, ?Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo (page 26)

     In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).

Alternative forms

• ere (obsolete)

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: ia

Derived terms

• Pages starting with “ear”.

Translations

See ear/translations § Noun.

Verb

ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)

1. (humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
   • Two Noble Kinsmen

     I eared her language.

2. To hold by the ears.

See also

• ear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• aural

Etymology 2

From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ?ar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-Germanic *ahaz (compare West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”) (compare Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B ?k (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (ost?, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.

Noun

ear (plural ears)

2. (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.

   He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.

Synonyms

• head
• spike

Derived terms

• corn earworm

Translations

Verb

ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)

1. (intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.

   This corn ears well.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English erian, from Proto-Germanic *arjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?- (“to plough”).

Verb

ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)

1. (archaic) To plough.
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II:

     That power I have, discharge; and let them go

     To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,

     For I have none.

   • And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley

Translations

Anagrams

• ARE, Aer, ERA, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, era, rea

Latin

Verb

ear

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of e?

Middle English

Noun

ear

1. Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???r/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *auraz. Akin to Old Norse aurr (“mud”).

Noun

?ar m

1. sea
2. earth

Declension

Derived terms

• Old English: ?arm?þa
  • English: Yarmouth

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“pointed”).

Noun

?ar n

1. ear (of corn)

Alternative forms

• æhher – Northumbria

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: eere, ear, ere, er, ?er, eyre
  • English: ear
  • Scots: aicher, icker, aiker (< æhher)

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

ear f

1. east

   Antonym: iar

Derived terms

References

• “ear” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• “ear” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
• “ear” in LearnGaelic - Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ?re, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h??ws.

Noun

ear n (plural earen, diminutive earke)

1. ear

Derived terms

• earbel
• earring

Further reading

• “ear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English er, from Old English ?r, from Proto-West Germanic *airi.

Preposition

ear

1. ere, before

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• sacculus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacculus (“a little sack or bag”), diminutive of saccus (“a bag, sack”). Doublet of sacculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæk.ju?l/

Noun

saccule (plural saccules)

1. (biology, anatomy) A small sac, pouch, or cyst.
2. (anatomy) The smaller of the two fluid-filled sacs forming part of the labyrinth of the inner ear (the other being the utricle). It contains a region of hair cells and otoliths which send signals to the brain concerning the orientation of the head.

Derived terms

• saccular (adjective)
• sacculo-

References

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

See also

• utricle

Latin

Noun

saccule

1. vocative singular of sacculus