musgo

Galician

Musgo

Etymology 1

Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin muscus (“musk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmus.ɣʊ]

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. (archaic) musk
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 625:

     Et teu yrmão Fernã Gonçaluez, cõna muy grã coyta que ouue, sey(nd)o do paaço fugindo et saltou en hũu curral que nõ era muy limpo; et, quando el et seus panos ende seyrõ nõ cheyrauã a musgo

     And your brother Fernán González, with the great trouble he had, getting out of the palace and fleeing he jumped into a corral that was not very clean; and, when he finally got out of it, his clothes didn't smell of musk

Etymology 2

From Latin mūscus (“moss”).

Alternative forms

• murgo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmus.ɣʊ]

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. moss

   Synonym: mofo

Derived terms

• musguento
• Penamusga

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “musgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “musgo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “musgo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “musgo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “musgo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

musgo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese musgo, from Latin mūscus (“moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.ɡu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmuʒ.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmuʒ.ɡu/ [ˈmuʒ.ɣu]

• Hyphenation: mus‧go

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. moss

Derived terms

• musgoso

Related terms

• briófita

Further reading

• musgo on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

musgo

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish musgo, from Latin muscus; probably a semi-learned term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmusɡo/ [ˈmuz.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -usɡo
• Syllabification: mus‧go

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. moss

Derived terms

• trepamusgos

 

Related terms

• musgoso

 

Further reading

• “musgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014