# fauces
## English

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### Etymology

Borrowing from Latin faucēs (“the upper part of a throat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔː.siːz/

### Noun

fauces pl (plural only)
* (anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
* (botany) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
* (zoology) (Can we verify this sense?) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
** 1826, Mary Anne Venning, Rudiments of Conchology (page 94)
    There are two orange-coloured spots at the fauces of that Cypræa Isabella, whence its name, orange-tip.
** 1872, American Journal of Conchology (volume 7, page 226)
    Even at that early age the lamella in the fauces may be distinctly traced through the translucent shell.
** 1993, Recovery Plan for the Oʻahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella (page 14)
    The tubercle is the same color but with white fauces. The glossy shell coloring is extremely various; the background is white, yellow or black, with or without longitudinal zigzag lines, transverse bands or blotches covering the surface.

#### Translations
### References

* Raija Hurme, Maritta Pesonen, Olli Syväoja, editors (1993), Englanti-Suomi suursanakirja, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 426
* Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language. New York: Portland House, 1989. →ISBN.
* “fauces”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “fauces”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “fauces”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

## Latin
### Etymology

Plural of faux, of unknown etymology.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfau̯.keːs/, [ˈfäu̯keːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfau̯.t͡ʃes/, [ˈfäːu̯t͡ʃes]

### Noun

faucēs f pl (genitive faucium); third declension
* (literal) the upper part of a throat; a throat, pharynx, gullet
** c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.2.15:Et tamen omnibus hominibus contrā serpentēs inest venēnum: ferunt ictum salīvae ut ferventis aquae contāctum fugere; quod sī in faucēs penetrāverit, etiam morī, idque maximē hūmānī iēiūnī ōris.And still all people have a venom against snakes: they say that they avoid the attack of saliva like the touch of boiling water; and if it makes its way into the throat, they also die, and most of all in the case of that of a fasted human mouth.
* (transferred sense)
** a narrow entrance, entry passage
** a defile, gorge
** the jaws of the earth; a gulf, abyss
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 6.201:Inde ubi venere ad fauces grave olentis AverniTill over foul Avernus’ sulphurous throat

#### Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.
The word is often plural, although a single instance of the nominative singular form faux is known.

#### Derived terms

* see: fōx

#### Descendants

* → English: fauces
* → Galician: fauces
* → Italian: fauci
* → Portuguese: fauces
* → Spanish: fauces

### References

* “fauces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fauces”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "fauces", 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)
* fauces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “fauces”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “fauces”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 217

## Spanish
### Noun

fauces
* plural of fauce