auricularis

• auricular muscle

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin auriculāris, ellipsis of musculus auriculāris (“auricular muscle”). Doublet of auricular.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˈlæɹ.ɪs/, /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˈlɑɹ.ɪs/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪs, -ɑːɹɪs

auricularis (plural auriculares)

1. (anatomy) Any of three muscles attaching the cartilage of the external ear to the skull.

   Hyponyms: auricularis anterior, auricularis posterior, auricularis superior

• “auricularis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From auricula (“the external ear; the ear”) +‎ -āris (“-ar”, adjectival suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯.rɪ.kʊˈɫaː.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯.ri.kuˈlaː.ris]

auriculāris (neuter auriculāre); third-declension two-termination adjective (Late Latin)

1. (relational) of or pertaining to the ear; auricular, ear-shaped

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• French: oreiller
• → Catalan: auricular
• → English: auricular, auricularis
• → French: auriculaire
• → Italian: auricolare
• → Portuguese: auricular
• → Romanian: auricular
• → Sicilian: ariculari
• → Spanish: auricular

auriculāris m (genitive auriculāris); third declension (New Latin)

1. ellipsis of digitus auriculāris: little finger

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• "auricularis", 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)