muscus Latin · revision 33464

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *mews-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mūscus''' ''m'' (genitive mūscī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|ine-pro|*mews-]],^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) cognate with [[goh|mos]], [[en|moss]] and [[lt|musaĩ]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Cato.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means moss or a similar growth:^(OLD 2012) Horace has rocks coated with moss, and Ovid soft moss.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace has rocks coated with moss.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid writes of soft moss.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|moss|alt=Moss]] or a similar growth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[mūscōsus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate Late Latin ''muscus'', “musk”, is [[bor|grc|μόσχος|tr=móskhos]], a word the TLL calls of Asian origin; it is found first in Jerome.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Medieval Latin also used it of muscatel wine.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''musk'' came partly from it, and ''muscat'' from a Vulgar Latin derivative.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}