aural

Etymology 1

From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).

adj

1. Of or pertaining to the ear.
   The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one. 17 September 1853, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268
2. Of or pertaining to sound.
   Clark made the album with producer Jack Antonoff, current collaborator of choice for Taylor Swift and Lorde. His involvement didn’t have a huge aural impact – the thrillingly disjointed but melodically gorgeous St Vincent sound remained intact – but his inclination for taking real-life trauma and fashioning it into pop took the album a step beyond Clark’s previous work. December 22, 2017, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian
   He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274

Etymology 2

From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) + -al.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to an aura.