faucal

• faucial

Latin fauces (“throat”).

faucal (not comparable)

1. Relating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial.

faucal (plural faucals)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced in the fauces.
   • 1883, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet:

     Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.

Both faucal and faucial are used and accepted. Faucial is generally used in medicine; faucal more often in phonetics. Faucal seems to have more etymological validity with respect to both the Latin and English roots. The Latin root is faux. Latin nouns in -ux retain no affix in combination with -alis; the proper Latin construction is faucalis, compare: Latin vocalis/English vocal, Latin ducalis/English ducal.

• faucalize
• faucalized
• faucalization

• “faucal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• facula