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AURICULAM → oreja · oreille · orecchio

The sisters all descend from the 'little ear', and a Roman grammarian's list of mistakes (auris non oricla) caught the spoken form in the act. Its cl then took the same roads as in OCULUM: oreja, oreille, orecchio, orelha, ureche and orella sit beside ojo, œil, occhio, olho, ochi and ull.

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AURICULAM

‘ear (Latin: little ear)’

ItalianStep 1 of 4
/awˈrikulam/

Latin accusative; diminutive of AURIS 'ear'

SpanishStep 1 of 6
/awˈrikulam/

Latin accusative; diminutive of AURIS 'ear'

FrenchStep 1 of 4
/awˈrikulam/

Latin accusative; diminutive of AURIS 'ear'

PortugueseStep 1 of 4
/awˈrikulam/

Latin accusative; diminutive of AURIS 'ear'

RomanianStep 1 of 3
/awˈrikulam/

Latin accusative; diminutive of AURIS 'ear'

CatalanStep 1 of 4
/awˈrikulam/

Latin accusative; diminutive of AURIS 'ear'

The sisters all descend from the 'little ear', and a Roman grammarian's list of mistakes (auris non oricla) caught the spoken form in the act. Its cl then took the same roads as in OCULUM: oreja, oreille, orecchio, orelha, ureche and orella sit beside ojo, œil, occhio, olho, ochi and ull.

Forms are written in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet: one symbol, one sound. Stressed syllables carry ˈ. Dates are approximate and given only where the handbooks agree. 24 word journeys.