muscarium

From musca (“fly”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via muscārius (“relating to flies”).

muscārium n (genitive muscāriī or muscārī); second declension

1. flyswatter

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

muscārium

1. nominative neuter singular of muscārius

• “muscarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "muscarium", 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)
• muscarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.