aural

From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹəl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹəl/
• (for some speakers, to distinguish from oral; Latinate) IPA^(key): /aʊɹəl/[1] or /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
• Homophone: oral (unless distinguished as above)

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

1. Of or pertaining to the ear.
   • 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:

     The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.

2. Of or pertaining to sound.
   • 2017 December 22, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian‎:

     Clark made the album with producer Jack Antonoff, current collaborator of choice for Taylor Swift and Lorde. His involvement didn’t have a huge aural impact – the thrillingly disjointed but melodically gorgeous St Vincent sound remained intact – but his inclination for taking real-life trauma and fashioning it into pop took the album a step beyond Clark’s previous work.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:

     He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.

• auditory
• auric (obsolete)

From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) +‎ -al.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹəl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
• Homophone: oral

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

1. Of or pertaining to an aura.

• auric

• aura

• Laura, laura

From Latin auris (“ear”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁal/, /ɔ.ʁal/

aural (feminine aurale, masculine plural auraux, feminine plural aurales)

1. (relational) sound; aural

• laura