The corpus record — Latin

maxilla

maxilla · f

the jawbone, jaw

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
De Medicina 26 · 2.54/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

maxilla — Lewis & Short

maxilla, ae, f.dim. of a ground-form magsula (whence māla; root mag of ma/ssw, to knead; mageu/s. baker, etc.; cf. axilla, ala, from ago),

I the jawbone, jaw (postAug.).

I Lit.: quam litteram (X) etiam e maxillis et taxillis et vexillo ... consuetudo elegans Latini sermonis evellit, Cic. Or. 45, 153: maxillae superiores, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159; Suet. Calig. 58; Veg. Vet. 2, 40, 2: maxillam superiorem commovere solam, Amm. 22, 15, 15: cum in maxillis balanatum gausape pectas, you comb the anointed beard on your jaws, Pers. 4, 37.— *

II Transf.: miserum populum, qui sub tam lentis maxillis erit, under such slowgrinding teeth, i. e. subject to such protracted cruelty, Aug. ap. Suet. Tib. 21.

In the wild

maxillas Celsus, De Medicina 6.9
maxillae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.16
maxilla Celsus, De Medicina 8.7
maxillaeque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.14
maxilla Celsus, De Medicina 8.7
maxillis Apuleius, Apologia 59

6 of 63 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. maxilla (scan p. 403; entry #6421).

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