muscule
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin musculus. Compare French muscule, Portuguese músculo.
Noun
editmuscule (plural muscules)
- 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[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] 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
editLatin
editNoun
editmūscule
Middle English
editNoun
editmuscule
- Alternative form of muscle (“muscle”)
Old French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin muscule, as if from Latin *mūscula, though the actual nominative plural of mūsculus is mūsculī, not *mūscula.
Noun
editmuscule oblique singular, f (oblique plural muscules, nominative singular muscule, nominative plural muscules)
Spanish
editVerb
editmuscule
- inflection of muscular:
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