muscule
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin musculus. Compare French muscule, Portuguese músculo.
Noun[edit]
muscule (plural muscules)
- Obsolete spelling of muscle [from Middle English – 18th c.]
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Use of Organized Bodies”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 1st book, paragraph 18, page 27:
- For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
mūscule
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
muscule
- Alternative form of muscle (“muscle”)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin muscule, as if from Latin *mūscula, though the actual nominative plural of mūsculus is mūsculī, not *mūscula.
Noun[edit]
muscule oblique singular, f (oblique plural muscules, nominative singular muscule, nominative plural muscules)
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
muscule
- inflection of muscular:
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