cochlear

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English cochlea

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -ārisbor.

English -ar

English cochlear

From cochlea + -ar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒk.li.ə/

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• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.kli.ɚ/, /ˈkɑ.kli.ɚ/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔk.li.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ̟k.li.ə]
• Rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ), -əʊkliə(ɹ)

Adjective

cochlear (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

Derived terms

• alicochlear
• cochlear duct
• cochlear implant
• cochlearly
• cochlear nerve
• cochlear window
• endocochlear
• extracochlear
• hypocochlear
• intracochlear
• noncochlear
• olivocochlear
• postcochlear
• retrocochlear
• sacculocochlear
• transcochlear
• vestibulocochlear

Related terms

• cochleary

Translations

Translations

• Afrikaans: kogleêr
• Catalan: coclear (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳蝸的 / 耳蜗的 (zh) (ěrwōde, ěrguāde (Taiwan))

• Finnish: simpukan (fi) (genitive of noun)
• French: cochléaire (fr) m or f
• Galician: coclear
• Greek: κοχλιακός (el) (kochliakós)
• Italian: cocleare
• Portuguese: coclear
• Russian: кохлеа́рный (ru) (koxleárnyj)
• Spanish: coclear

Noun

cochlear (plural cochlears)

1. Short for cochlear implant.

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• coclear
• cochleāre, cocleāre
• cochleāris
• cochleārium, cocleārium, cocleārum
• cochl. (abbreviation in medicine and pharmacy)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek κόχλος (kókhlos)

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱς (-ĭ́ās)

Ancient Greek κοχλῐ́ᾱς (kokhlĭ́ās)bor.

Latin cochlea

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -āris

Latin -āre

Latin -ar

Latin cochlear

From cochlea (“snail”, “snail-shell”) + -ar (suffix forming neuter nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.kʰɫe.ar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.kle.ar]

Noun

cochlear n (genitive cochleāris); third declension

1. a spoon
2. a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)
   1. (specifically, in medicine and pharmacy) a spoonful (a measurement of dose, equal to half a cheme or ¹⁄₁₄₄ of a cotyla)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	cochlear	cochleāria
genitive	cochleāris	cochleārium
dative	cochleārī	cochleāribus
accusative	cochlear	cochleāria
ablative	cochleārī	cochleāribus
vocative	cochlear	cochleāria

Derived terms

• cochlear amplum
• cochlear magnum
• cochlear medium
• cochlear parvum
• cochleārium

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cucchiaio
  • Neapolitan: cucchiaro
  • Sicilian: cucchiara
  • → Maltese: kuċċarina
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: cuciar, cuciär, cucèr
    • → Piedmontese: cuciar
      • → Franco-Provençal: cuchâr
  • Ligurian: cugiâ
  • Lombard: cugiar
  • Piedmontese:

    Occidental: cujé, chier

    Oriental: cugé

  • Romagnol: cucèra, cuceara, cucèr
  • Venetan: cuciàro
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: culyér, culyére
  • Norman: quillier, quillière
  • Old French: cuiller, cuilliere
    • French: cuiller, cuillère
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cullera, cullara, culler
  • Catalan: cullera
  • Occitan: culhièr, culhier

    Auvergnat: culhèir, cuhlèira

    Gascon: culhèr, culher, culhèra, culhera

    Vivaro-Alpine: cuilher, cuilhera, culièra

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: cuyar, cullar
    • Asturian: cuyar
    • Mirandese: colhara
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cullar, collar
    • Galician: collar, cullar; coller, culler (influenced by Old French cuiller)
    • Portuguese: colher (influenced by Old French cuiller)
    • Kabuverdianu: kudjer
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: kuchara
    • Spanish: cuchara
      • Cebuano: kutsara
      • Hiligaynon: kutsara
      • Papiamentu: kuchara
      • Tagalog: kutsara
• Borrowings:
  • Basque: koilara
  • Esperanto: kulero
    • Ido: kuliero
  • Interlingua: coclear

References

• “cŏclĕar (cochl-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cŏchlĕăr et cŏchlĕāre”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “332/3”
• “coc(h)lear(e)” on page 341/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “cochlearis (mascul.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 194/2