musca

See also: MUSCA, Musca, muscã, muscă, and mușca

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Latin

musca (a fly)

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Cognates with the Sanskrit मशक (maśáka), Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), and the Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “a fly”) of which μυἰσκα (muiska) may be a diminutive form. Confer the German Mücke (“midge”) and English midge, midget.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmus.ka/, [ˈmʊs.ka]

Noun

musca f (genitive muscae); first declension

1. a fly (insect)

   Puer, abige muscas.

   Repel those flies, boy.

2. (transferred meaning) an inquisitive or prying people

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	musca	muscae
Genitive	muscae	muscārum
Dative	muscae	muscīs
Accusative	muscam	muscās
Ablative	muscā	muscīs
Vocative	musca	muscae

Derived terms

• muscārium
• muscārius

Descendants

• Aromanian: muscã
• Asturian: mosca
• Catalan: mosca
• Dalmatian: muasca
• Franco-Provençal: mouche
• French: mouche
• Friulian: moscje
• Galician: mosca
• Italian: mosca
• Norman: moûque

• Occitan: mosca
• Portuguese: mosca
• Romanian: muscă
• Romansch: mustga
• Sardinian: musca
• Sicilian: musca
• Spanish: mosca
• Venetian: mósca
• Walloon: moxhe

References

• musca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• musca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• musca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• musca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• musca in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• musca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Middle English

Noun

musca

1. Alternative form of muske

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Romanian

Noun

musca f

1. definite nominative and accusative singular of muscă