caveola

Learned borrowing from New Latin caveola, constructed from cavea (“hollow, cavity; cage”) +‎ -ola (diminutive suffix). Doublet of jail, which is from Late Latin caveola, an earlier, natural formation of the same term. More at cave, cavum, cava and cage.

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

caveola (plural caveolae)

1. A small (50–100 nanometer) invagination of the plasma membrane in many vertebrate cell types.

• caveogenesis
• caveolar
• caveolin

• coaeval, coæval

caveola f (plural caveole)

1. caveola

From cavea (“cage”) +‎ -ola (diminutive ending). Attested in glosses from late antiquity.^[1]

caveola f (genitive caveolae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. little cage

First-declension noun.

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “jaula”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 501

• IPA^(key): /kabeˈola/ [ka.β̞eˈo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: ca‧ve‧o‧la

caveola f (plural caveolas)

1. caveola