different between uvula vs lingula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?vula, diminutive of ?va (“grape”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?.vj?l.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ju.vj?l.?/
• Homophone: uvular (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

uvula (plural uvulae or uvulas or (obsolete) uvulæ)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing

   Synonym: staphyle

2. (anatomy) the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate
3. (music) an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper

Usage notes

• The Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989) marks this word as not naturalized in English.

Derived terms

• uvular (adjective)
• uvulatome
• uvulatomy
• uvulo-, uvul-

Translations

References

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

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin ?vula (“small grape”), diminutive of Latin ?va. Doublet of uvule, another borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.vy.la/

Noun

uvula f (plural uvulas)

1. uvula, palatine uvula

Synonyms

• luette
• uvule

Latin

Etymology

From ?va (“a grape”) +? -ula (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?.u?u.la/, [?u?u?o??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?u.vu.la/, [?u?vul?]

Noun

?vula f (genitive ?vulae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. Diminutive of ?va.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Malay

Etymology

From Late Latin ?vula (“little grape”), diminutive of Latin ?va (“grape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uvula/

Noun

uvula (Jawi spelling ???????, plural uvula-uvula, informal 1st possessive uvulaku, impolite 2nd possessive uvulamu, 3rd possessive uvulanya)

1. (anatomy) Uvula (appendage that hangs from the palate)

Synonyms

• anak lidah
• anak tekak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lingula (“small tongue”), from lingua (“tongue”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???j?l?/

Noun

lingula (plural lingulae)

1. (anatomy) Any of several tongue-shaped bony structures, especially that which forms the anterior border of the mandibular foramen.
2. (anatomy) Any small, fleshy tongue-shaped structure, such as in the anatomy of the brain or the human left lung, or in the whitefly vasiform orifice.

Related terms

• lingular
• linguliform

Anagrams

• lingual

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lingula.

Noun

lingula f (plural lingule)

1. (anatomy) lingula
2. ancient roman leaf-shaped sword

Latin

Etymology

lingua +? -ula, possibly influenced by ling?.

Alternative forms

• ligula

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.?u.la/, [?l??????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.?u.la/, [?li??ul?]

Noun

lingula f (genitive lingulae); first declension

1. Diminutive of lingua
2. tongue of land
3. The tongue of a shoe, a shoe-strap, shoe-latchet
4. A spoon or ladle for skimming a pot, a skimmer
5. A small sword
6. The tongue or reed of a flute
7. The pointed end of a post or stake, which was inserted into something
8. The short arm of a lever
9. The tongue-shaped extremity of a water-pipe
10. The tongue of a scale-beam
11. A tongue-shaped member of the cuttle-fish

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lingul?tus

Descendants

• Aromanian: lingurã
• ? English: lingula
• ? Italian: lingula
• Romanian: lingur?

References

• lingula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lingula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lingula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lingula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lingula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers