mucous

English

/ˈmjuːkəs/

adj

Definitions

Pertaining to mucus
Having the qualities of mucus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūcōsus, mūcus (snot, mucus).

Origin

Latin

mūcus

Gloss

snot, mucus

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

mucously English
mucousness English
mucousy English
mucus English
nonmucous English
seromucous English
submucous English
submucously English
*mucceus Latin
*muccōsus Latin
mucci Latin
mucosus Latin
muculentus Latin
mūcus Latin
mūcōsus Latin
muco Italian
mucoso Italian
mucoso Spanish, Castilian
*mew-, *mew-k- Proto-Indo-European
mucoso Portuguese
muko Esperanto
moc Catalan, Valencian
mucos Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
mugull Albanian
mucos Aromanian
mocoło Venetian