Etymology

embouchure

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Today it means: The use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth when playing a wind instrument. Full definition →

French embouchure ← Latin bucca
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frombucca“cheek”
  2. French · borrowed fromembouchure
  3. English todayembouchure

From French embouchure, from emboucher (“to put in one’s mouth”), from en- (“in”) + bouche (“mouth”), from Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Words from the same roots

Latinbucca all →

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