mandibula

Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”), from mandō (“to chew, masticate”) +‎ -bula (instrument noun suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /manˈdɪb.jʊl.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mænˈdɪb.jəl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə

mandibula (plural mandibulae)

1. Obsolete form of mandible.

• “mandibula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Internationalism (see English mandible), ultimately from Late Latin mandibula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑndibulɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝ndiˌbulɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ulɑ
• Syllabification^(key): man‧di‧bu‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): man‧di‧bu‧la

mandibula

1. mandible

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [manˈdɪ.bʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [man̪ˈd̪iː.bu.la]

From mandō (“to chew, masticate”) +‎ -bula (instrument noun suffix).

• mandibulum

mandibula f (genitive mandibulae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. a jaw

First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mandibula n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mandibulum

• “mandibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mandibula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mandibula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.