Etymology

malleus

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Today it means: The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. Full definition →

Latin malleus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed frommalleus“hammer, mallet”
  2. English todaymalleus

From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

Words from the same roots

Latinmalleus all →

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