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- Latin · borrowed frommāxillāris“of or belonging to the jaw”
- English todaymaxillary
Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.
Words from the same roots
Latinmāxillāris all →
zygomaxillare
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.