mucus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːkəs/
• Rhymes: -uːkəs
• Hyphenation: mu‧cus
• Homophone: mucous

Noun

mucus (usually uncountable, plural mucuses)

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

Usage notes

Do not confuse mucous (adjective) with mucus (noun).

Hyponyms

• phlegm
• rheum

Derived terms

Derived terms

• mucilaginous
• mucoid

• mucoidal
• mucous

Related terms

• mucosa
• mucositis

Translations

slippery secretion

• Albanian: mukozë (sq) f
• Arabic: مُخَاط m (muḵāṭ)

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

• Armenian: լորձ (hy) (lorj)

  Old Armenian: մաղաս (małas)

• Aromanian: muc m, muts m pl, mucã f
• Asturian: mocu m
• Azerbaijani: selik
• Belarusian: слізь f (slizʹ)
• Bulgarian: слуз f (sluz)
• Burmese: အချွဲ (my) (a.hkywai:)
• Catalan: moc (ca) m
• Chamicuro: s̈hos̈hochi
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: sliz (cs) m
• Danish: slim (da) c or n
• Dutch: slijm (nl) m
• Esperanto: muko (eo)
• Estonian: lima (et)
• Faroese: slím n
• Finnish: lima (fi)
• French: mucus (fr) m
• Galician: moco
• Gamilaraay: mirril
• Georgian: ლორწო (lorc̣o)
• German: Schleim (de) m
• Greek: βλέννα (el) f (vlénna)

  Ancient: μύξα f (múxa)

• Hebrew: רִיר (he) m (rir)
• Hindi: नाक (hi) f (nāk)
• Hungarian: nyálka (hu)
• Icelandic: slím n
• Ido: muko (io)
• Italian: muco (it) m
• Japanese: 粘液 (ja) (ねんえき, nen'eki)
• Kazakh: шырыш (şyryş), жалқық (jalqyq)
• Khmer: សេម្ហៈ (km) (seemhaʼ), សេមហកលា (seemhaʼkaʼlaa), រំអិល (km) (rumʼəl)
• Korean: 점액 (jeomaek) (粘液)
• Kurdish: ,
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• Kyrgyz: былжыр (ky) (bıljır)
• Lao: ກະເທີ່ (ka thœ̄), ເມືອກ (mư̄ak), ເສດ (sēt), ເສມ (sēm)
• Latin: mūcus m
• Latvian: gļotas m
• Lithuanian: gleivės f pl
• Low German: Sliem m
• Macedonian: слуз m (sluz)
• Malay: lendir
• Manx: carbeig
• Maori: hūpē, keha, kea
• Mongolian: салс (mn) (sals)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slim (no) n

  Nynorsk: slim (no) n

• Pashto: مخاط m (moxãt)
• Persian: مخاط (fa) (moxât), لیزابه (fa) (lizâbe), خلم (fa) (xelm)
• Polish: śluz (pl) m, wydzielina (pl) f
• Portuguese: muco (pt) m
• Quechua: ñuti, togro
• Romanian: muci, mucus (ro)
• Russian: слизь (ru) f (slizʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ronn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слуз f

  Roman: sluz (sh) f

• Slovak: sliz m
• Slovene: sluz f
• Spanish: moco (es) m
• Swedish: slem (sv) n
• Tajik: луоб (luob)
• Thai: มูก (th) (mûuk), เมือก (mʉ̂ʉak), เสมหะ (th) (sěem-hà)
• Turkish: mukus (tr), sümük (tr)
• Turkmen: nem
• Ukrainian: слиз f (slyz)
• Urdu: مخاط (muxāt)
• Uyghur: شىللىق (shilliq)
• Uzbek: shilliq (uz)
• Venetian: napa (vec) f
• Vietnamese: nước nhầy, niêm dịch (粘液), chất nhớt
• Volapük: slim (vo)

See also

• snot

Anagrams

• CUSUM

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French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin mūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.kys/

Noun

mucus m (uncountable)

1. (physiology) mucus

Further reading

• “mucus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• muccus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Cognates include Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.kus/, [ˈmuːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.kus/, [ˈmuːkus]

Noun

mūcus m (genitive mūcī); second declension

1. mucus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūcus	mūcī
Genitive	mūcī	mūcōrum
Dative	mūcō	mūcīs
Accusative	mūcum	mūcōs
Ablative	mūcō	mūcīs
Vocative	mūce	mūcī

Derived terms

• mūcēdō
• muceō
• mūcidus
• mūcōsus
• mūculentus

Related terms

• mūcō

Descendants

• Aromanian: muc, mucã
• Catalan: moc
• Corsican: moccia
• English: mucus
• French: mucus
• Italian: moccio, muco
• Occitan: moc

• Old French: moche
• Portuguese: monco, muco
• Romanian: muc
• Sardinian: mucu, muccu
• Sicilian: muccu
• Spanish: moco
• Venetian: mocoło, moso

References

• “mucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mucus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.