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6-letter words (1 found)

AREOLA,

5-letter words (2 found)

AREAL,REALO,

4-letter words (18 found)

AERO,ALAE,ALAR,ALOE,AREA,ARLE,EARL,EORL,LAER,LARE,LEAR,LORE,OLEA,ORAL,ORLE,RALE,REAL,ROLE,

3-letter words (15 found)

AAL,ALA,ALE,ARE,EAR,ERA,LAR,LEA,LOR,OAR,OLE,ORA,ORE,REO,ROE,

2-letter words (12 found)

AA,AE,AL,AR,EA,EL,ER,LA,LO,OE,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 49 words from areola according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of areola

areola

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ārea. Doublet of areole.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈəʊ.lə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌɛ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈoʊ.lə/
  • Rhymes: -iələ, -əʊlə

Noun

areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)

  1. (anatomy) The circular, darkly pigmented area surrounding a nipple; the areola mammae.
  2. (by extension, anatomy) Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.
  3. (anatomy) Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.
  4. (botany) Any of the small spaces between fibres of the tissues of certain lichens.
  5. (botany) Small patches, bearing the spines and glochids characteristic of the stems of cacti.
    • 1876 Richard E. Kunzé Cereus bonplandii (Parmet). Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York p.129
      Every pulvillus or areola is studded with from six to eight spines... From these pulvilli, also called spiniferous areola, or very close to it, burst the young bud or flower. If the latter, it is then called the floriferous areola, and the point where the epidermis bursts is of a deep pink tinge.

Usage notes

  • Not to be confused with aureola.

Derived terms

  • areola mammae
  • areolar

Related terms

  • areole
  • area

Translations

Further reading

  • areola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌaː.reːˈoː.laː/
  • Hyphenation: are‧ola

Noun

areola f (plural areola's or areolae)

  1. (anatomy) areola (circle around a nipple)
    Synonym: tepelhof

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English areola), ultimately from Latin āreola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑreolɑ/, [ˈɑ̝re̞ˌo̞lɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -olɑ
  • Syllabification(key): a‧re‧o‧la

Noun

areola

  1. Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.

Noun

areola f (plural areole)

  1. areola

Related terms

  • area

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive form of ārea.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aːˈre.o.la/, [äːˈreɔɫ̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈre.o.la/, [äˈrɛːolä]

Noun

āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension

  1. a small open place; courtyard
  2. a small garden bed or cultivated place

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “areola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • areola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • areola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • aréola

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āreola.

Noun

areola f (plural areolas)

  1. (anatomy) areola (the coloured circle around a nipple)
    Synonym: aureola

Related terms

Further reading

  • “areola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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