maxilla

Borrowed from Latin maxilla (“jaw”), a diminutive of māla (“jaw”).

maxilla (plural maxillas or maxillae or maxillæ)

1. Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw.
2. Arachnid mouthpart

• jawbone
• maxillary bone
• (Arachnid mouthpart): endite

From māla (“cheek, cheekbone”). Confer with similarly formed āla - axilla.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /makˈsil.la/, [makˈsɪl.la]

maxilla f (genitive maxillae); first declension

1. (anatomy) jaw, jawbone, bone of the upper jaw
2. lower part of the face, jaws

First declension.

• maxillāris

• maxilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• maxilla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• maxilla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• maxilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

maxilla f (plural maxillas)

1. Obsolete spelling of maxila