pómulo

pómulo m (plural pómulos)

1. cheekbone

   Synonym: meixela

Borrowed from Latin pōmŭlum, a diminutive of pōmum (“stone fruit”). Compare Catalan pòmul, French pommette.

Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *agodica, a diminutive of *agoda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpomulo/ [ˈpo.mu.lo]

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• Rhymes: -omulo
• Syllabification: pó‧mu‧lo

pómulo m (plural pómulos)

1. cheekbone

• mejilla f

• “pómulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025