musculature

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

French musculaturebor.

English musculature

Borrowed from French musculature.

Noun

musculature (countable and uncountable, plural musculatures)

1. The collection of all muscles in a single body or in a single organ.
2. The structural configuration of muscle in a body or organ.

Derived terms

• exomusculature
• neuromusculature
• seromusculature
• skeletomusculature

Translations

collection of muscles

• Albanian: muskulaturë (sq) f
• Bulgarian: мускулату́ра f (muskulatúra)
• Catalan: musculatura (ca) f
• Czech: svalstvo n
• Dutch: spierstelsel (nl) n
• Finnish: lihaksisto (fi)
• French: musculature (fr) f
• German: Muskulatur (de) f
• Hungarian: izomzat (hu)
• Italian: muscolatura (it) f
• Macedonian: мускулатура f (muskulatura)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: muskulatur m

  Nynorsk: muskulatur m

• Polish: muskulatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: musculatura f, cabedal (pt) m
• Romanian: musculatură (ro) f
• Russian: мускулату́ра (ru) f (muskulatúra)
• Spanish: musculatura (es) f

French

Etymology

Learned formation from the root of Latin musculus (whence French muscle) + -ture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mys.ky.la.tyʁ/

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Noun

musculature f (plural musculatures)

1. musculature

Further reading

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