musca

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See also: MUSCA, Musca, muscã, muscă, and mușca

English

Noun

musca (plural muscae)

  1. Short for musca volitans.

Anagrams

Latin

musca (a fly)

Etymology

    From a Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

    See also Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), and the Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “a fly”) of which μυΐσκη (muḯskē) may be a diminutive form. Compare the German Mücke (“midge”) and English midge, midget.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    musca f (genitive muscae); first declension

    1. a fly (insect)
      Puer, abige muscas.
      Repel those flies, boy.
    2. (transferred sense) an inquisitive or prying person

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative musca muscae
    genitive muscae muscārum
    dative muscae muscīs
    accusative muscam muscās
    ablative muscā muscīs
    vocative musca muscae

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • “musca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “musca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • musca 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)
    • musca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • musca in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
    • “musca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

    Middle English

    Noun

    musca

    1. Alternative form of muske

    Old Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin musca.

    Noun

    musca f

    1. sparrow

    Inflection

    Declension of musca (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun)
    case singular plural
    nominative musca musca, muscon
    accusative musca, muscon musca, muscon
    genitive muscon muscono
    dative muscon muscon

    Descendants

    Further reading

    “muska”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

    Romanian

    Noun

    musca f

    1. definite nominative/accusative singular of muscă

    Sicilian

    Etymology

    From Latin musca. Compare Italian mosca.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmus.ka/
    • Hyphenation: mù‧sca

    Noun

    musca f (plural muschi)

    1. fly (insect)

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    See also

    References

    • Traina, Antonino (1868) “musca”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 2619–2620
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