aréola

See also: areola

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin areola. Doublet of eiró.

Pronunciation

(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)

(anatomy) areola (circle around the nipple)
flowerbed (place where flowers are grown)
(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)

Alternative form of areola

Further reading

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

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