musca

musca (plural muscae)

1. Ellipsis of musca volitans.

• CUSMA, sumac, USMCA, musac, Camus, camus

From a Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mews- (“fly”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “a fly”) (of which μυΐσκη (muḯskē) may be a diminutive form), Old Armenian մուն (mun, “gnat, midge; itch”), German Mücke (“midge”), and English midge, midget.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmʊs.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmus.ka]

musca f (genitive muscae); first declension

1. a fly (insect)

   Puer, abige muscas.

   Repel those flies, boy.

2. (transferred sense) an inquisitive or prying person

First-declension noun.

• muscārium
• muscārius

• “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 (16 July 2016 (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

musca

1. alternative form of muske

Borrowed from Latin musca.

musca f

1. sparrow

• Middle Dutch: mussche
  • Dutch: mus
    • Afrikaans: mossie
    • → Papiamentu: mùs
• Limburgish: mösj

“muska”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

musca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of muscă

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish موسقه (muska).

musca f (plural muscale)

1. (Dobruja) amulet

• musca in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Latin musca. Compare Italian mosca.

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

musca f (plural muschi)

1. fly (insect)

• → Italian: piciolla (regional)

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “musca”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 2619–2620