musgo

Galician

Musgo

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmusɡo/ [ˈmuz̺.ɣ̞ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈmusɡo/ [ˈmuz̺.ɣ̞ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈmusħo/ [ˈmuz̺.ħʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -usɡo

• Rhymes: -usɡo
• Rhymes: -usħo

• Hyphenation: mus‧go

Etymology 1

Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin muscus (“musk”).

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. (archaic) musk

   Synonym: almiscre

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 625:

     Et teu yrmão Fernã Gonçaluez, cõna muy grã coyta que ouue, sey(nd)o do paaço fugindo et saltou en hũu curral que nõ era muy limpo; et, quando el et seus panos ende seyrõ nõ cheyrauã a musgo

     And your brother Fernán González, with the great trouble he had, getting out of the palace and fleeing he jumped into a corral that was not very clean; and, when he finally got out of it, his clothes didn't smell of musk

Etymology 2

From Latin mūscus (“moss”).

Alternative forms

• murgo

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. moss

   Synonym: mofo

Derived terms

• musguento
• Penamusga

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “musgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “musgo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “musgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “musgo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “musgo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

musgo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese musgo, from Latin mūscus (“moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.ɡu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmuʒ.ɡu/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmuʒ.ɡu/ [ˈmuʒ.ɣu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmuʒ.ɡu/ [ˈmuʒ.ɣu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmuʒ.ɡu/

• Hyphenation: mus‧go

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. moss

Derived terms

• musgoso

Related terms

• briófita

Further reading

• musgo on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “musgo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “musgo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

musgo

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish musgo, from Latin muscus; probably a semi-learned term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmusɡo/ [ˈmuz.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -usɡo
• Syllabification: mus‧go

Noun

musgo m (plural musgos)

1. moss

Derived terms

• trepamusgos

Related terms

• musgoso

Further reading

• “musgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025