Buccolabial
/ˌbʌk.oʊˈleɪ.bi.əl/noun
Relating to both the cheek and the lips, especially in dentistry or phonetics.
Did you know?Buccolabial is a learned scientific compound from Latin roots, and its first half, bucco-, comes from bucca, the everyday Latin word for “cheek” that also survived in words like buccal.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
bucca
“cheek; mouth”
Latin
Latin
labium
“lip; edge or border”
Late Medieval Latin
Latin
bucco- + labialis
“cheek + relating to the lip”
Modern Scientific English
English
buccolabial
“pertaining to both the cheek and the lip”