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musca

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

English

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Noun

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musca (plural muscae)

  1. Short for musca volitans.

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Latin

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musca (a fly)

Etymology

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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

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Noun

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musca f (genitive muscae); first declension

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

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative musca muscae
Genitive muscae muscārum
Dative muscae muscīs
Accusative muscam muscās
Ablative muscā muscīs
Vocative musca muscae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • “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[1], 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

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musca

  1. Alternative form of muske

Romanian

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Noun

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musca f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of muscă

Sicilian

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Etymology

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From Latin musca. Compare Italian mosca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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musca f (plural muschi)

  1. fly (insect)

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Descendants

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See also

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References

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  • 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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