mustela
See also: Mustela
Interlingua
Noun
mustela (plural mustelas)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From unattested form *mūstrelā 'small mouse-like animal', a diminutive from a Proto-Italic *mūstrā (“mouse-like animal”). Probably a cognate of mustricula.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /muːsˈteː.la/, [muːs̠ˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /musˈte.la/, [musˈt̪ɛːlä]
Noun
mūstēla f (genitive mūstēlae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mūstēla | mūstēlae |
| Genitive | mūstēlae | mūstēlārum |
| Dative | mūstēlae | mūstēlīs |
| Accusative | mūstēlam | mūstēlās |
| Ablative | mūstēlā | mūstēlīs |
| Vocative | mūstēla | mūstēlae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: mostela, mustela
- Occitan: mostèla, mostèl
- Old French: moustoile
- Romansch: mustaila
- → Translingual: Mustela
References
- “mustela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mustela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mustela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mustela”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 396-397