maxilla

Etymology
From, from , diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) An upper jaw especially of humans and other mammals in which the bony elements are closely fused.
 * 2)  Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.
 * 3)  One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.
 * 1)  Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.
 * 2)  One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.
 * 1)  Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.
 * 2)  One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: горна челюст
 * Catalan: maxil·lar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 上頜骨
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ülalõualuu
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: άνω γνάθος
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: верхняя че́люсть
 * Scottish Gaelic: pìos àrd a' ghuib
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, maxill
 * Tagalog: taasihang
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish: maksilla, maxilla, üst çene kemiği

Etymology
Diminutive of, from its reconstructed Proto-Italic form and the diminutive suffix  via the following sequence of regular sound changes:  >  >. Compare the formation of the following diminutives: –, –, –, –, –. An alternative etymology of, supported by Thurneysen and Leumann, reconstructs its original form as , from the root of ; if this is correct, the in the diminutive must have instead been introduced by analogy to. Synchronically, can be viewed as ending in the Latin diminutive suffix.

Noun

 * 1)  the jaw, jawbone, bone of the upper jaw
 * 2)  the lower part of the face, the jaws
 * 1)  the lower part of the face, the jaws