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Where does “buccal” come from?

Buccal comes from Latin bucca, meaning cheek or mouth.

buccal (English): Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the...

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the...

Ancestry of “buccal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ál—
2Middle English-al—
3Old French-alsuffix used to form adjectives from nouns
4Latin-ālis—
5Proto-Italic-ālis—

Words derived from “buccal”

  • mesiobuccal
  • buccally
  • distobuccal
  • gingivobuccal
  • transbuccal
  • debuccalization
  • intrabuccal
  • nasobuccal
  • prebuccal
  • extrabuccal
  • mesiobuccally
  • anterobuccal
  • distobuccally
  • posterobuccal
  • anterobuccally
  • mesobuccal
  • buccal cavity
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