uvula

Borrowed from Late Latin ūvula, diminutive of ūva (“grape”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.vjʊl.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈju.vjəl.ə/

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• Homophone: uvular (in non-rhotic accents)

uvula (plural uvulae or uvulas or (obsolete) uvulæ)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula.: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing

   Synonym: staphyle

2. (anatomy) the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate
3. (music) an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper

• The Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989) marks this word as not naturalized in English.

• uvular (adjective)
• uvulatome
• uvulatomy
• uvulo-, uvul-

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

Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin ūvula (“small grape”), diminutive of Latin ūva. Doublet of uvule, another borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /y.vy.la/

uvula f (plural uvulas)

1. (anatomy) uvula, palatine uvula

   Synonyms: luette, uvule

From ūva (“a grape”) +‎ -ula (“diminutive suffix”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.u̯u.la/, [ˈuːu̯ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.vu.la/, [ˈuːvulä]

ūvula f (genitive ūvulae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. Diminutive of ūva.

First-declension noun.

From Late Latin ūvula (“little grape”), diminutive of Latin ūva (“grape”).

• IPA^(key): /uvula/

uvula (Jawi spelling اوۏولا, plural uvula-uvula, informal 1st possessive uvulaku, 2nd possessive uvulamu, 3rd possessive uvulanya)

1. (anatomy) Uvula (appendage that hangs from the palate)

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