aréola

See also: areola

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin areola. Doublet of eiró.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛ.o.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛ.o.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾɛ.o.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾɛ.u.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: a‧ré‧o‧la

Noun

aréola f (plural aréolas)

1. (anatomy) areola (circle around the nipple)
2. flowerbed (place where flowers are grown)
3. (botany) areole (bump on a cactus out of which grow clusters of spines)

Related terms

• área

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾeola/ [aˈɾe.o.la]
• Rhymes: -eola
• Syllabification: a‧ré‧o‧la

Noun

aréola f (plural aréolas)

1. Alternative form of areola

Further reading

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