mucus

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūcus.

Pronunciation

• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈmjukəs/, X-SAMPA: /"mjuk@s/
• IPA: /mjuːkəs/
• Rhymes: -uːkəs
• Hyphenation: mu‧cus

Noun

mucus (uncountable)

1. (physiology) A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes.

Hyponyms

• phlegm
• rheum

Derived terms

• mucoid
• mucoidal
• mucous
• mucilaginous

Related terms

• mucosa
• mucositis

Translations

slippery secretion

• Arabic: مخاط (ar) (muxāṭ) m

  Egyptian Arabic: مخاط (muxāṭ) m, بربور (barbūr) m, برابير (barabīr) f pl

• Armenian: լորձ (hy) (lordz)
• Belarusian: слізь (be) (slizʹ) f
• Bulgarian: слуз (bg) (sluz) f
• Chamicuro: s̈hos̈hochi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黏液 (cmn) (niányè), 粘液 (cmn) (niányè)

• Czech: sliz (cs) m
• Danish: slim (da) c or n
• Dutch: slijm (nl) m
• Finnish: lima (fi)
• French: mucus (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schleim (de) m
• Greek: βλέννα (el) (vlénna) f
• Hungarian: nyálka (hu)
• Icelandic: slím (is) n
• Italian: muco (it) m
• Japanese: 粘液 (ja) (ねんえき, nen'eki)
• Kazakh: шырыш (kk) (şırış)
• Korean: 점액 (ko) (jeom-aek) (粘液 (ko))

• Lithuanian: gleivės (lt) f pl
• Macedonian: слуз (mk) (sluz) m
• Manx: carbeig (gv)
• Persian: بلغم (fa) (balğam)
• Polish: śluz (pl) m, wydzielina (pl) f
• Portuguese: muco (pt) m
• Romanian: muci (ro), mucus (ro)
• Russian: слизь (ru) (slizʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: ronn (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слуз (sh) f

  Roman: sluz (sh) f

• Slovak: sliz (sk) m
• Slovene: sluz (sl) f
• Spanish: moco (es) m
• Swedish: slem (sv) n
• Turkish: mukus (tr), sümük (tr)
• Ukrainian: слиз (uk) (slyz) f
• Vietnamese: nước nhầy (vi), niêm dịch (vi) (粘液 (vi))
• Volapük: slim (vo)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mykys/

Noun

mucus m (usually uncountable)

1. (physiology) mucus

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Latin

Alternative forms

• muccus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meu-k- "slimy, slippery". Cognates include Ancient Greek μύκης "mushroom".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈmuː.kus/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmu.kus/

Noun

mūcus (genitive mūcī); m, second declension

1. mucus

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	mūcus	mūcī
genitive	mūcī	mūcōrum
dative	mūcō	mūcīs
accusative	mūcum	mūcōs
ablative	mūcō	mūcīs
vocative	mūce	mūcī

Related terms

• mūcō

Derived terms

• mūcēdō
• mūcidus
• mūcōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: moc
• English: mucus
• Italian: muco
• Romanian: muc
• Spanish: moco