muscus

== 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. ===== Derived terms ===== mūscōsus ===== Descendants ===== Italo-Romance: Italian: musco Sicilian: muscu Ibero-Romance: Galician: musgo Portuguese: musgo Spanish: musgo ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mūsculum (see there for further descendants) → Albanian: myshk → Greek: μούσκλι (moúskli), Greek: μούσκλο (moúsklo) === 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. ===== Descendants ===== → Bulgarian: мускус (muskus) → Danish: muskus → Estonian: muskus → Finnish: myski Old French: mugue → Old French: musc French: musc → Middle English: muske, musca, musco, musk, musceEnglish: 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”) Spanish: moscada Old French: muscade, mugede, muguete ⇒ French: muguet→ English: muguet→ Catalan: muguet→ Italian: mughetto→ 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, moscatel, 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)→ Māori: natimeke→ Welsh: nytmeg === 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, 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.