Etymograph

English

premolar

Clipping of premolar tooth, calque of Latin dens praemolaris.

Formed from pre- + molar

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-

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Proto-Italic *molā

Latin mola ‘millstone’

Latin molāris ‘millstone, molar’

Middle English molar

English molar

Today it means

noun A tooth located in front of the molars, especially the bicuspid tooth between the cuspids and molars in humans.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / premolar