muscus

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Latin

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mūscus m (genitive mūscī); second declension

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
Galician: musgo
Portuguese: musgo
Sicilian: muscu
Spanish: musgo
Vulgar Latin: *mūsculum (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos). See English musk for more.

Noun

muscus m (genitive muscī); second declension

musk deer
musk (secretion, odour)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	muscus	muscī
Genitive	muscī	muscōrum
Dative	muscō	muscīs
Accusative	muscum	muscōs
Ablative	muscō	muscīs
Vocative	musce	muscī

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: мускус (muskus)
→ Danish: muskus
→ Estonian: muskus
→ Finnish: myski
Old French: mugue
→ Old French: musc
- French: musc
- → Middle English: muske, musca, musco, musk, musce
  - English: musk
    - → Irish: musc
    - → Welsh: mwsg
Galician: musgo
→ German: Moschus
Italian: musco, muschio
→ Norwegian: moskus
→ Russian: мускус (muskus)
Sardinian: nuscu
→ Swedish: mysk
⇒ Late Latin: muscāta f (“musky”)
- Old French: muscade, mugede, muguete
  - ⇒ French: muguet
    - → Catalan: muguet
    - → Turkish: müge
  - ⇒ Norman: mudget
- Old Occitan: muscada
  - Occitan: muscat
    - → French: muscat
      - → English: muscat
      - → Georgian: მუსკატი (musḳaṭi)
  - → French: muscade
  - → Norman: muscade
  - ⇒ Old Occitan: muscadal
    - → Old French: muscadel
      - → English: muscatel, muscadel, muscadelle
- → Crimean Tatar: miskat
- → Czech: muškát
- → Danish: muskat
- → Dutch: muskaat
- → German: Muskat, Muskate f (obsolete)
  - → Faroese: muskatt
- → Icelandic: múskat
- → Luxembourgish: Meskot
- → Norwegian: muskat
- → Swedish: muskot
  - → Finnish: muskotti
- ⇒ Medieval Latin: nux muscata, nux muga (“musky nut; nutmeg”)
  - → Middle English: notemege, notemuge (partial translation)
    - English: nutmeg
      - → Irish: noitmig
      - → Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)
      - → Maori: natimeke

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.

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