alveolus

Borrowed from Latin alveolus (“a small hollow or cavity”), diminutive of alveus (“a hollow, cavity”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌal.viˈəʊ.ləs/, /alˈviː.əl.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ælˈvi.əl.əs/
• Rhymes: -iːələs

alveolus (plural alveoli)

1. A small cavity or pit.
   1. (anatomy) Any of the many tiny air sacs in the lungs in which the bronchioles terminate and where oxygen and carbon dioxide are rapidly exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries.

      Synonym: pulmonary alveolus

   2. (anatomy, dentistry) The bony socket in which the root of a tooth resides.

      Synonyms: dental alveolus, tooth socket

   3. (anatomy) An acinus (saclike cavity) in a gland.
   4. (entomology) The socket of a macrotrichium (seta).

• “alveolus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “alveolus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• alveolus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• alveolus at OneLook Dictionary Search

From English alveolus, from Latin alveolus, a diminutive of alveus (“a tray, trough, basin”), from alvus (“the belly, the stomach, bowels, womb, etc.”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): [al.veˈo.lʊs]
• (common) IPA^(key): [al.feˈo.lʊs]
• Hyphenation: al‧vé‧o‧lus

alvéolus (first-person possessive alveolusku, second-person possessive alveolusmu, third-person possessive alveolusnya)

1. alveolus,
   1. (anatomy, pulmonology) A small air sac in the lungs, where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged with the blood.
   2. (anatomy, dentistry) A dental alveolus (tooth socket): the socket in which a tooth resides.

• alveola

• “alveolus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From alveus (“a hollow, cavity”) +‎ -olus (diminutive nominal suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈu̯e.o.lus/, [äɫ̪ˈu̯eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈve.o.lus/, [älˈvɛːolus]

alveolus m (genitive alveolī); second declension

1. Diminutive of alveus:
   1. a small hollow or cavity
   2. a tray, trough, basin
   3. (board games) a small gaming board upon which the dice are thrown
   4. a small channel of a river
   5. (weaving) a weaver's shuttle (from its shape)

Second-declension noun.

• alveolātus (adjective)
• alveolāris (adjective)

• alveus

• “alveolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alveolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alveolus 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)
• alveolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• alveolus in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968