mustacium
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive from Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax). Attested in the plural form mustācia in a gloss from the seventh century CE.[1]
Noun
[edit]mustācium n (genitive mustāciī or mustācī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mustācium | mustācia |
Genitive | mustāciī mustācī1 |
mustāciōrum |
Dative | mustāciō | mustāciīs |
Accusative | mustācium | mustācia |
Ablative | mustāciō | mustāciīs |
Vocative | mustācium | mustācia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance: f
- Italo-Romance: m
- North Italian: m
- Emilian: mostaz
- Lombard: mostasc
- Borgomanero: mostasciu
- Piedmontese: mostass
- Venetian: mustacchio
References
[edit]- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mystax”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 319