Noun: auricula
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | auricula |
| Plural | auriculae |
Genitive
| Singular | auriculae |
| Plural | auriculārum |
Dative
| Singular | auriculae |
| Plural | auriculīs |
Accusative
| Singular | auriculam |
| Plural | auriculās |
Ablative
| Singular | auriculā |
| Plural | auriculīs |
Vocative
| Singular | auricula |
| Plural | auriculae |
Sample Sentences
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Tu, quemadmodum me censes oportere esse et in re publica et in nostris inimicitiis, ita et esse et fore auricula infima scito molliorem. (Whatever line you think I ought to take in politics and in treating my opponents, be sure I shall take, and shall be "gentler than any ear-lap.) [54 B.C.E., Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem:]
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auriculis magnis ac flaccis (1934 translation by W. D. Hooper and Harrison Boyd Ash
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large and drooping ears) [116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 2.9.4]
Nouns inflected like auricula
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From auris (“ear”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Verbs referencing "auricula"
English Nouns
auricle, French Nouns
oreille, Italian Nouns
auricola, Catalan Nouns
aurícula, Galician Nouns
orelleira.
Translations