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7-letter words (1 found)

MALLEUS,

6-letter words (3 found)

LESULA,MULLAS,ULEMAS,

5-letter words (25 found)

ALMES,ALUMS,AMUSE,LAMES,LEAMS,LUMAS,MALES,MALLS,MALUS,MAULS,MEALS,MELAS,MELLS,MESAL,MULES,MULLA,MULLS,MULSE,SALLE,SALUE,SAMEL,SELLA,SMALL,SMELL,ULEMA,

4-letter words (50 found)

ALES,ALLS,ALME,ALMS,ALUM,ALUS,AMES,AMUS,EAUS,ELLS,ELMS,EMUS,LAME,LAMS,LASE,LEAL,LEAM,LEAS,LUES,LUMA,LUMS,MAES,MALE,MALL,MALS,MASE,MASU,MAUL,MEAL,MELA,MELL,MELS,MESA,MEUS,MULE,MULL,MUSE,SALE,SALL,SAME,SAUL,SEAL,SEAM,SELL,SLAE,SLAM,SLUE,SLUM,ULES,UMES,

3-letter words (40 found)

ALE,ALL,ALS,ALU,AME,AMU,AUE,EAS,EAU,ELL,ELM,ELS,EMS,EMU,LAM,LAS,LEA,LES,LEU,LUM,MAE,MAL,MAS,MEL,MES,MEU,MUS,SAE,SAL,SAM,SAU,SEA,SEL,SMA,SUE,SUM,ULE,UME,UMS,USE,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AL,AM,AS,EA,EL,EM,ES,LA,MA,ME,MU,UM,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 134 words from malleus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of malleus

malleus

Etymology

From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈmæl.i.əs/
  • Rhymes: -æliəs

Noun

malleus (plural mallei)

  1. (anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
    A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
  2. (ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  3. (zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

Synonyms

  • (bone of the middle ear): hammer
  • (tripus): malleus Weberi, tripus

Hypernyms

  • (bone of the middle ear): auditory ossicle, auditory bone, otic bone, ossicle

Derived terms

  • malleal
  • mallear
  • malleable

Translations

References

  • The Century Dictionary Online
  • Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister
  • A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, →ISBN, →ISBN, page 174

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-no-, from *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), whence also molō (“I grind”). Compare similar semantic development from the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Church Slavonic млатъ (mlatŭ, “hammer”), beside the verb млѣти (mlěti, “grind”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmal.le.us/, [ˈmälːʲeʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmal.le.us/, [ˈmälːeus]

Noun

malleus m (genitive malleī); second declension

  1. hammer, mallet
  2. a disease of animals
  3. (New Latin) the malleus, a small bone in the middle ear
    • 1794, Gulielmo Rowley, Schola Medicinæ Universalis Nova, pars prior, page ix

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • martellus (Medieval Latin)

Derived terms

  • malleō
  • malleolus

Descendants

References

  • “malleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “malleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • malleus 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)
  • “malleus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “malleus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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