buccal
English
/ˈbʌ.kəl/
adj
Definitions
- Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.
- (dentistry) On the side facing the cheek.
- (medicine) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
Etymology
Derived from Latin bucca (cheek, mouth).
Origin
Latin
bucca
Gloss
cheek, mouth
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
口
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alveolobuccal English
- anterobuccal English
- anterobuccally English
- axiobuccal English
- buccally English
- buccalwards English
- cerebrobuccal English
- circumbuccal English
- distobuccal English
- distobuccally English
- dorsobuccal English
- extrabuccal English
- gingivobuccal English
- infrabuccal English
- intrabuccal English
- mesiobuccal English
- mesiobuccally English
- mesobuccal English
- midbuccal English
- nasobuccal English
- nonbuccal English
- occlusobuccal English
- orobuccal English
- parabuccal English
- peribuccal English
- posterobuccal English
- posterobuccally English
- prebuccal English
- transbuccal English
- transbuccally English
- bukkaalinen Finnish
- *buccata Latin
- *buccula Latin
- *imbuccāre Latin
- *imbuccō Latin
- bucca Latin
- buccula Latin
- bucculentus Latin
- būca Latin
- bocca Italian
- buccal French
- embouchure French
- *bʰeHw- Proto-Indo-European
- bochecha Portuguese
- boche Old French
- bouge Old French
- boca Catalan, Valencian
- bucă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- buged Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- boko Ido
- bòc Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- boca Old Portuguese
- bucigiar Old Portuguese
- bucã Aromanian
- boca Occitan
- boca Asturian
- bocje Friulian
- bocha Old Occitan
- bucca Sicilian
- buccularu Sicilian
- vucca Sicilian
- buca Dalmatian
- *box Proto-Brythonic
- boke Walloon
- bôche Bourguignon
- vocca Neapolitan
- bucheîn Istriot
- bucun Istriot
- boca Aragonese
- buccally
- nonbuccal
- prebuccal
- midbuccal
- orobuccal
- parabuccal
- axiobuccal
- mesobuccal
- peribuccal
- nasobuccal
- distobuccal
- buccalwards
- extrabuccal
- infrabuccal
- transbuccal
- intrabuccal
- dorsobuccal
- mesiobuccal
- anterobuccal
- circumbuccal
- alveolobuccal
- cerebrobuccal
- transbuccally
- gingivobuccal
- posterobuccal
- occlusobuccal
- distobuccally
- mesiobuccally
- anterobuccally
- posterobuccally