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Noun [English]

IPA: /mæstɪˈkeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mastication.wav Forms: mastications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Late Latin masticātiō, equivalent to masticate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|masticātiō}} Late Latin masticātiō, {{suf|en|masticate|ion}} masticate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)
  1. (physiology) The process of chewing. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physiology Translations (process of chewing): дъвчене (dǎvčene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), pureskelu (Finnish), mastikaatio (Finnish), mastication [feminine] (French), Mastikation [feminine] (German), cogaint [feminine] (Irish), masticazione [feminine] (Italian), 咀嚼 (soshaku) (Japanese), mastigação [feminine] (Portuguese), mestecare [feminine] (Romanian), masticație [feminine] (Romanian), masticación [feminine] (Spanish), жування (žuvannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-mastication-en-noun-f7H4deyN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 75 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 80 20 Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences Disambiguation of 'process of chewing': 91 9
  2. The process of crushing as though chewed. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mastication-en-noun-7BoytX8H
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: demastication, muscle of mastication, premastication, remastication Related terms: masticate, masticatory

Noun [French]

IPA: /mas.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-mastication.wav Forms: mastications [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} mastication f (plural mastications)
  1. mastication Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-mastication-fr-noun-czjnF0CJ Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "word": "mastication"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.