papilla

Borrowed from Latin papilla (“a nipple, teat”).

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpɪl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

papilla (plural papillae)

1. (anatomy) A nipple-like protuberance on a part or organ of the body.
   1. A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.
   2. Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles.
   3. Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.
2. (botany) A small fleshy projection on a plant.

• “papilla”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “papilla”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpilːɑ/, [ˈpɑpilːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpilːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧pil‧la

papilla

1. adessive singular of pappi

papilla

1. (anatomy, botany) Alternative form of papilli

papilla (plural papillas)

1. nipple

From Latin papilla.

• IPA^(key): /paˈpil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: pa‧pìl‧la

papilla f (plural papille)

1. papilla

• papilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• allappi

From papula (“a pustule, pimple”) +‎ -la (diminutive nominal suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈpil.la/, [päˈpɪlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈpil.la/, [päˈpilːä]

papilla f (genitive papillae); first declension

1. Diminutive of papula:
   1. (anatomy) a nipple, teat on the breast of human beings and of animals
   2. (transferred sense)
      1. (poetic) breast
         • Martialis, Epigrammata 14.134 :

           Fascia, crescentes dominae compesce papillas

           band, compress your mistress' swelling breasts

      2. (medicine) pustule, pimple
      3. rosebud

First-declension noun.

• papillātus (adjective)

• “papilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “papilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• papilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

papilla f (plural papillas)

1. Obsolete spelling of papila

papa +‎ -illa

• Syllabification: pa‧pi‧lla

papilla f (plural papillas)

1. baby food

• dar papilla
• echar la papilla
• hacer papilla
• hecho papilla

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