musaraneus

Latin

Alternative forms

• mūs arāneus

Etymology

From mūs (“mouse”) +‎ arāneus (“of a spider”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /muː.saˈraː.ne.us/, [muːs̠äˈräːneʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mu.saˈra.ne.us/, [mus̬äˈräːneus]

Noun

mūsarāneus m (genitive mūsarāneī); second declension

1. a shrew

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūsarāneus	mūsarāneī
Genitive	mūsarāneī	mūsarāneōrum
Dative	mūsarāneō	mūsarāneīs
Accusative	mūsarāneum	mūsarāneōs
Ablative	mūsarāneō	mūsarāneīs
Vocative	mūsarānee	mūsarāneī

Synonyms

• (shrew): mygalē

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: musaragno
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Middle French: mesiraigne, merisengne
    • French: musaraigne
  • Walloon: miserette, mesirette (possibly)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: musaranya
  • Occitan: musaranha, musranha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: musaranho
  • Spanish: musaraña
    • → Tagalog: musaranya
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mureganeus
  • Padanian:
    • Ladin: müsgagn ⇒ müsgòt, masugòt (“bat”); musgaign (“shrew”)
    • ⇒? Lombard: morjeu, morijeu (“mouse”)

      Bresciano: morgano (“rat”)

  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: meurge
    • Gallo: migren
    • ⇒ Lorrain: meurjotte
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitan:

      ⇒ Gascon: mirga, murga, murgueta, mirgueta

      ⇒ Languedocien: mirga, murga, murgueta, mirgueta

      ⇒ Limousin: murja

      ⇒ Vivaro-Alpine: murga

  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: musgaño
    • Spanish: musgaño
• Borrowings:
  • → English: ranny

References

• “mygale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• musaraneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.