muscus

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

mūscus m (genitive mūscī); second declension

1. moss

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūscus	mūscī
Genitive	mūscī	mūscōrum
Dative	mūscō	mūscīs
Accusative	mūscum	mūscōs
Ablative	mūscō	mūscīs
Vocative	mūsce	mūscī

Derived terms

• mūscōsus

Descendants

• Albanian: myshk
• Aromanian: mushclju
• French: musc
• Friulian: muscli
• Italian: musco, muschio
• Occitan: muc

• Portuguese: musgo
• Romanian: mușchi
• Sardinian: nuscu
• Spanish: musgo
• Venetian: muscio

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.