vallecula

1859 borrowing from Late Latin vallecula (“a little valley, glen, dell”), diminutive of vallēs (“a valley, vale”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vaˈlɛk.jʊl.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /væˈlɛk.jəl.ə/, /vəˈlɛk.jəl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛkjʊlə

vallecula (plural valleculae or valleculas)

1. (anatomy, botany) A depression, channel or groove.

• vallecular
• valleculate

• “vallecula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “vallecula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “vallecula”, in Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Saunders, 2004

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From vallēs (“a valley, vale”) +‎ -cula (diminutive nominal suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯alˈle.ku.la/, [u̯älˈlʲɛkʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /valˈle.ku.la/, [välˈlɛːkulä]

vallecula f (genitive valleculae); first declension

1. Diminutive of vallēs: Late Latin form of vallicula.

• → English: vallecula

• “vallicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press