muela

muela f (plural mueles)

1. grindstone
2. molar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmwela/ [ˈmwe.la]

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: mue‧la

Inherited from Latin mola (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

muela f (plural muelas)

1. molar
2. grindstone

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muela

1. inflection of moler:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “muela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024