muscus

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *mews-. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *musą, Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.

Noun

mūscus m (genitive mūscī); second declension

1. moss

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mūscus	mūscī
genitive	mūscī	mūscōrum
dative	mūscō	mūscīs
accusative	mūscum	mūscōs
ablative	mūscō	mūscīs
vocative	mūsce	mūscī

Derived terms

• mūscōsus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: musco
  • Sicilian: muscu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: musgo
  • Portuguese: musgo
  • Spanish: musgo
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mūsculum (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: myshk

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos). See English musk for more.

Noun

muscus m (genitive muscī); second declension

1. musk deer
2. musk (secretion, odour)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	muscus	muscī
genitive	muscī	muscōrum
dative	muscō	muscīs
accusative	muscum	muscōs
ablative	muscō	muscīs
vocative	musce	muscī

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: мускус (muskus)
• → Danish: muskus
• → Estonian: muskus
• → Finnish: myski
• Old French: mugue
• → Old French: musc
  • French: musc
  • → Middle English: muske, musca, musco, musk, musce
    • English: musk
      • → Irish: musc
      • → Welsh: mwsg
• Galician: musgo
• → German: Moschus
• Italian: musco, muschio
• → Norwegian: moskus
• → Russian: мускус (muskus)
• Sardinian: nuscu
• → Swedish: mysk
• ⇒ Late Latin: muscāta f (“musky”)
  • Spanish: moscada
  • Old French: muscade, mugede, muguete
    • ⇒ French: muguet
      • → Catalan: muguet
      • → Turkish: müge
    • ⇒ Norman: mudget
  • Old Occitan: muscada
    • Occitan: muscat
      • → French: muscat
        • → English: muscat
        • → Georgian: მუსკატი (musḳaṭi)
    • → French: muscade
    • → Norman: muscade
    • ⇒ Old Occitan: muscadal
      • → Old French: muscadel
        • → English: muscatel, muscadel, muscadelle
  • → Crimean Tatar: miskat
  • → Czech: muškát
  • → Danish: muskat
  • → Dutch: muskaat
  • → German: Muskat, Muskate f (obsolete)
    • → Faroese: muskatt
  • → Icelandic: múskat
  • → Luxembourgish: Meskot
  • → Norwegian: muskat
  • → Swedish: muskot
    • → Finnish: muskotti
  • ⇒ Medieval Latin: nux muscata, nux muga (“musky nut; nutmeg”)
    • → Middle English: notemege, notemuge (partial translation)
      • English: nutmeg
        • → Irish: noitmig
        • → Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)
        • → Maori: natimeke
        • → Welsh: nytmeg

References

• “muscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “muscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "muscus", 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)
• “muscus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.