mucus

Learned borrowing from Latin mūcus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːkəs/

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• Rhymes: -uːkəs
• Hyphenation: mu‧cus
• Homophone: mucous

mucus (usually uncountable, plural mucuses or muci)

2. (physiology) A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes.

   Hyponyms: phlegm, rheum

   The mucus in coryza may vary from runny to viscous.

3. (botany) Short for vegetable mucus

• Do not confuse mucus (noun) with mucous (adjective).

• booger
• snot
• phlegm

• CUSUM

Learned borrowing from Latin mūcus.

• IPA^(key): /my.kys/

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mucus m (uncountable)

1. (physiology) mucus

• → Turkish: mukus

• “mucus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• muccus

From Proto-Italic *moukos, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Cognates include Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.kus]

mūcus m (genitive mūcī); second declension

1. mucus

Second-declension noun.

• mūcēdō
• muceō
• mūcidus
• mūcōsus
• mūculentus

• mūcō

• “mucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mucus", 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)
• mucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin mūcus. Doublet of muc.

mucus n (uncountable)

1. (physiology) mucus