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
Further reading
- “aréola”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “aréola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025