musaraneus
Latin
Alternative forms
- mūs arāneus
Etymology
From mūs (“mouse”) + arāneus (“of a spider”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [muː.saˈraː.ne.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [mu.s̬aˈraː.ne.us]
Noun
mūsarāneus m (genitive mūsarāneī); second declension
- a shrew
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mūsarāneus | mūsarāneī |
| genitive | mūsarāneī | mūsarāneōrum |
| dative | mūsarāneō | mūsarāneīs |
| accusative | mūsarāneum | mūsarāneōs |
| ablative | mūsarāneō | mūsarāneīs |
| vocative | mūsarānee | mūsarāneī |
Synonyms
- (shrew): mygalē
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: musaragno
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Middle French: mesiraigne, merisengne
- French: musaraigne
- Walloon: miserette, mesirette (possibly)
- Middle French: mesiraigne, merisengne
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mureganeus
- Padanian:
- Ladin: müsgagn ⇒ müsgòt, masugòt (“bat”); musgaign (“shrew”)
- ⇒? Lombard: morjeu, morijeu (“mouse”)
- Bresciano: morgano (“rat”)
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Franco-Provençal: meurge
- Gallo: migren
- ⇒ Lorrain: meurjotte
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Borrowings:
- → English: ranny
References
- “mygale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- musaraneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.