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muscus
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Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *mews-. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *musą, Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.
Noun
mūscus m (genitive mūscī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos). See English musk for more.
Noun
muscus m (genitive muscī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- → 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”)
- Spanish: moscada
- 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
- “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.
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