muesca

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

muesca f (plural muescas)

1. notch, groove

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