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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

  1. moss
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: musco
    • Sicilian: muscu
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Vulgar Latin: *mūsculum (see there for further descendants)
  • Albanian: myshk

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos). See English musk for more.

Noun

muscus m (genitive muscī); second declension

  1. musk deer
  2. musk (secretion, odour)
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

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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