areola

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, /ˌæ.ɹiˈəʊ.lə/

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

areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)

1. (anatomy) The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae.
   • 2014 April 28, Albert Sun, “From Volunteers, a DNA Database”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Working with the Personal Genome Project, she has collected measurements and images of the areolas of 150 people so far. One initial finding is that the diameter of the areola seems unrelated to the number of areola glands — the small bumps in the skin surrounding the nipple.

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.
   • 1847, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 51, page 329:

     The tubes or elongated spaces of which we have spoken, are not distended with any fluid, but are merely moistened in the same way as the areolas of ordinary areolar tissue.

• Not to be confused with aureola.

• areola mammae
• areolar

• areole
• area

• areola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea.

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

areola f (plural areola's or areolae)

1. (anatomy) areola (circle around a nipple)

   Synonym: tepelhof

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

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

areola

1. Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)

Borrowed from Latin āreola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.

areola f (plural areole)

1. areola

• area

Diminutive form of ārea.

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

āreola f (genitive āreolae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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

• aréola

From Latin āreola.

areola f (plural areolas)

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

   Synonym: aureola

• areolar

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