musculature

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French musculature.

Noun

musculature (countable and uncountable, plural musculatures)

1. The collection of all muscles in a single body or in a single organ.
2. The structural configuration of muscle in a body or organ.

Translations

collection of muscles

Albanian: muskulaturë (sq) f Bulgarian: мускулату́ра f (muskulatúra) Catalan: musculatura (ca) f Czech: svalstvo n French: musculature (fr) f German: Muskulatur (de) f Hungarian: izomzat (hu) Italian: muscolatura (it) f Macedonian: мускулатура f (muskulatura) Norwegian: Bokmål: muskulatur m Nynorsk: muskulatur m Polish: muskulatura (pl) f Portuguese: musculatura f, cabedal (pt) m Romanian: musculatură (ro) f Russian: мускулату́ра (ru) f (muskulatúra) Spanish: musculatura (es) f

French

Etymology

Learned formation from the root of Latin musculus (whence French muscle) + -ture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mys.ky.la.tyʁ/

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Noun

musculature f (plural musculatures)

1. musculature

Further reading

• “musculature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.