English
faucal
Faucal comes from Latin fauces ‘throat’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfauces‘throat’earlier origin unknown
- Englishearliest quotation 1883faucal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfauces‘throat’earlier origin unknown
- Englishearliest quotation 1883faucal
Earliest quotation: 1883, Isaac Taylor: “Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.”
The story
Latin fauces (‘throat’).
Every English word from Latin fauces
Today it means
adj Relating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fauces / faucal