magulum

Latin

Etymology

Unknown: derivations from maga, magus (“magician”) + -ulus and from māla (“cheekbone, jaw”)[1] have been proposed but are not widely accepted. Attested only in the scholia on Juvenal; since the word appears in the accusative case, it may instead be masculine magulus.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

magulum n (genitive magulī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin, hapax, anatomy) jaw, mouth

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative magulum magula
Genitive magulī magulōrum
Dative magulō magulīs
Accusative magulum magula
Ablative magulō magulīs
Vocative magulum magula

Descendants
  • Koine Greek: μάγουλον (mágoulon)

References
  • “magulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • magulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “māga”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 15
  2. Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “*magulus, -lum”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 379
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