muscus
Latin
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *mews-. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *musą, Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.
Noun
editmūscus m (genitive mūscī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mūscus | mūscī |
Genitive | mūscī | mūscōrum |
Dative | mūscō | mūscīs |
Accusative | mūscum | mūscōs |
Ablative | mūscō | mūscīs |
Vocative | mūsce | mūscī |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Albanian: myshk
- Galician: musgo
- Portuguese: musgo
- Sicilian: muscu
- Spanish: musgo
- Vulgar Latin: *mūsculum (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos). See English musk for more.
Noun
editmuscus m (genitive muscī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | muscus | muscī |
Genitive | muscī | muscōrum |
Dative | muscō | muscīs |
Accusative | muscum | muscōs |
Ablative | muscō | muscīs |
Vocative | musce | muscī |
Descendants
edit- → Bulgarian: мускус (muskus)
- → Danish: muskus
- → Estonian: muskus
- → Finnish: myski
- Old French: mugue
- → Old French: musc
- Galician: musgo
- → German: Moschus
- Italian: musco, muschio
- → Norwegian: moskus
- → Russian: мускус (muskus)
- Sardinian: nuscu
- → Swedish: mysk
- ⇒ Late Latin: muscāta f (“musky”)
- Old French: muscade, mugede, muguete
- Old Occitan: muscada
- → Crimean Tatar: miskat
- → Czech: muškát
- → Danish: muskat
- → Dutch: muskaat
- → German: Muskat, Muskate f (obsolete)
- → Faroese: muskatt
- → Icelandic: múskat
- → Luxembourgish: Meskot
- → Norwegian: muskat
- → Swedish: muskot
- → Finnish: muskotti
- ⇒ Medieval Latin: nux muscata, nux muga (“musky nut; nutmeg”)
References
edit- “muscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “muscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- muscus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- muscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.