faucal

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English

Alternative forms

faucial

Etymology

Latin fauces (“throat”).

Adjective

faucal (not comparable)

Relating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial.

Noun

faucal (plural faucals)

(phonetics) A sound produced in the fauces.
- 1883, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet:
  Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.

Usage notes

Both faucal and faucial are used and accepted. Faucial is generally used in medicine; faucal more often in phonetics. Faucal seems to have more etymological validity with respect to both the Latin and English roots. The Latin root is faux. Latin nouns in -ux retain no affix in combination with -alis; the proper Latin construction is faucalis, compare: Latin vocalis/English vocal, Latin ducalis/English ducal.

Related terms

References

“faucal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

facula