muesca

Spanish

Etymology

Deverbal from moscar, from Vulgar Latin *mossicāre, from Latin morsicāre (“to nibble, to chew”).

Noun

muesca f (plural muescas)

notch, groove

Derived terms

muesca superior (“top notch”)

Further reading

“muesca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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