musculus

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin mūsculus (“a little mouse; a muscle”), diminutive of mūs (“a mouse”).

Pronunciation

Noun

musculus (plural musculi)

  1. (anatomy) A muscle. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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References

Latin

Etymology

From mūs (“a mouse”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix), literally “little mouse”. The “muscle” sense is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse; muscle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mūsculus m (genitive mūsculī); second declension

  1. (literally) diminutive of mūs: a small mouse
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. a companion of the whale
    2. a saltwater mussel
    3. (anatomy) a muscle
    4. (military) a shed, mantelet, shielding
    5. A kind of small sailing vessel.
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Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mūsculus mūsculī
Genitive mūsculī mūsculōrum
Dative mūsculō mūsculīs
Accusative mūsculum mūsculōs
Ablative mūsculō mūsculīs
Vocative mūscule mūsculī

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Descendants

References

  • “musculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “musculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • musculus 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)
  • musculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “musculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “musculus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396
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