English
fauces
Fauces comes from Latin faucēs ‘the upper part of a throat’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaucēs‘the upper part of a throat’earlier origin unknown
- Englishearliest quotation 1826fauces
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaucēs‘the upper part of a throat’earlier origin unknown
- Englishearliest quotation 1826fauces
Earliest quotation: 1826, Mary Anne Venning, Rudiments of Conchology: “There are two orange-coloured spots at the fauces of…”
Every English word from Latin faucēs
Today it means
noun The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin faucēs / fauces