muscule

English

Etymology

From Latin musculus. Compare French muscule, Portuguese músculo.

Noun

muscule (plural muscules)

1. Obsolete spelling of muscle [from Middle English – 18th c.]
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Use of Organized Bodies”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 1st book, paragraph 18, page 27:

     For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.

Anagrams

• seculum

Latin

Noun

mūscule

1. vocative singular of mūsculus

Middle English

Noun

muscule

1. Alternative form of muscle (“muscle”)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin muscule, as if from Latin *mūscula, though the actual nominative plural of mūsculus is mūsculī, not *mūscula.

Noun

muscule oblique singular, f (oblique plural muscules, nominative singular muscule, nominative plural muscules)

1. (anatomy) muscle

Spanish

Verb

muscule

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