different between oxter vs axilla

English

Etymology

Apparently from Middle English *oxtere, *oxte, from Old English ?xta, ?hsta, related to Old English ?xn (“armpit”), Old English eax (“axis, axle”) and eaxl (“shoulder”). See also axis and axon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kst?(?)/

Noun

oxter (plural oxters)

1. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The armpit. [from 15th c.]
   • , Episode 12: The Cyclops,

     And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, […]

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 90:

     ‘It's a small beast,’ he said. ‘I could carry it under my oxter.’

Verb

oxter (third-person singular simple present oxters, present participle oxtering, simple past and past participle oxtered)

1. (transitive) To hug with the arms, or support by taking the arm of.

References

Anagrams

• extro-, retox

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin axilla (“side, armpit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk?s?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

axilla (plural axillae)

1. The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
2. (botany, uncommon) Alternative form of axil

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• ascella (Late and Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Diminutive form of ?la (“wing”) (from its earlier form axla). Confer with similarly formed m?la - maxilla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?k?sil.la/, [ä?k?s??l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ak?sil.la/, [?k?sil??]

Noun

?xilla f (genitive ?xillae); first declension

1. little wing
2. axilla, armpit

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• axilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• axilla in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray