trochlea

Borrowed from Latin trochlea (“case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys, block”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒk.li.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑk.li.ə/

trochlea (plural trochleae or trochleas)

1. (anatomy) A structure resembling or acting like a pulley.
   1. In the elbow joint, the articular surface of the lower extremity of the humerus, grasped by the trochlear notch of the ulna.
   2. A pulley-like cartilage through which the superior oblique muscle of the eyeball passes.

• trochlear
• trochleary
• trochleo-

• “trochlea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “trochlea”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• “trochlea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “trochlea”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “trochlea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• chelator, chlorate, trachelo-

• troclea

Contracted from Ancient Greek τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā, “pulley, block-and-tackle equipment”), from τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los, “sheave in block-and-tackle equipment”) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā, nominal suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɔ.kʰɫe.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rɔː.kle.a]

trochlea f (genitive trochleae); first declension

1. mechanical contrivance for raising weights; case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys; pulley block

First-declension noun.

• → Alemannic German: Trüegle
• → English: trochlea

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