axilla

Borrowed from Latin axilla (“side, armpit”). Doublet of axil.

• IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪlə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

axilla (plural axillas or axillae)

1. The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
2. (botany, uncommon) Alternative form of axil

• ascella (Late and Vulgar Latin)

Diminutive form of āla (“wing”) (from its earlier form *axla). Compare with similarly formed māla - maxilla.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aːkˈsil.la/, [äːkˈs̠ɪlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /akˈsil.la/, [äkˈsilːä]

āxilla f (genitive āxillae); first declension

1. little wing
2. axilla, armpit

First-declension noun.

• “axilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “axilla”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray