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Galician

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Noun

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orelha f (plural orelhas, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of orella

References

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  • orelha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

Noun

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orelha f (plural orelhas)

  1. ear

Descendants

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  • Galician: orella
  • Portuguese: orelha (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Orelha

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese orelha, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Cognate Galician orella, Spanish oreja. Doublet of aurícula

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eʎɐ
  • Hyphenation: o‧re‧lha

Noun

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orelha f (plural orelhas)

  1. (anatomy) ear
  2. bookflap
  3. (Brazil, informal) dog-ear
  4. the claw of a claw hammer
    Synonyms: unha, garra

Usage notes

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Colloquially, orelha refers exclusively to the auricle, while ouvido is the earhole, but the terms can be interchangeable in some cases.

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:orelha.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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