fauces

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɔːsiːz]

Noun

1. (anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
2. (botany) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
3. (zoology) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

Translations

anatomy: narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx

• Finnish: nielu (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• Hurme, Pesonen, Syväoja, "Englanti-Suomi suursanakirja", →ISBN, 4th ed., 1993, page 426
• "Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language", new rev. ed., 1994, →ISBN, page 702. Based on "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the Unabridged Edition", 2nd ed., 1993

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fauces”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

Plural of faux, of unknown etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfau̯.keːs/, [ˈfäu̯keːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfau̯.t͡ʃes/, [ˈfäːu̯t͡ʃes]

Noun

faucēs f pl (genitive faucium); third declension

1. throat, pharynx, gullet
2. a narrow entrance, entry passage

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	faucēs
Genitive	faucium
Dative	faucibus
Accusative	faucēs faucīs
Ablative	faucibus
Vocative	faucēs

The word is often plural, although a single instance of the nominative singular form faux is known.

Descendants

• English: fauces
• Galician: fauces
• Italian: fauci
• Portuguese: fauce, foz
• Spanish: fauces

References

• “fauces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fauces”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fauces in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fauces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fauces”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fauces”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Spanish

Noun

fauces

1. plural of fauce