# cochlear
## English
### Etymology

From cochlea +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkoʊ.kli.ɚ/, /ˈkɑk.li.ɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ), -əʊkliə(ɹ)

### Adjective

cochlear (not comparable)
* (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
### References

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

## Latin
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈko.kʰle.ar/, [ˈkɔkʰɫ̪eär]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.kle.ar/, [ˈkɔːkleär]

### Noun

cochlear n (genitive cochleāris); third declension
* a spoon
* a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)
** (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).

#### 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, cucièr
*** → 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:
*** Asturian: cuyar
**** Leonese: cuyar
*** Mirandese: colhar
** 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