mouche
French
noun
Definitions
- fly insect
- bullseye center of a target
- (historical) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas
- (Louisiana French) bee
- soul patch, mouche narrow beard descending from lower lip
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mousche inherited from Old French mousche inherited from Latin musca (fly, a fly).
Origin
Latin
musca
Gloss
fly, a fly
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Musca English
- mouchard English
- mouche English
- muscarine English
- muschetor English
- musca Latin
- muscarium Latin
- minimosca Italian
- mosca Italian
- mosca bianca Italian
- moscaio Italian
- moscato Italian
- moschino Italian
- moscone Italian
- mouchard French
- moucharder French
- moucheron French
- mosca Spanish, Castilian
- mosquito Spanish, Castilian
- mus Spanish, Castilian
- *mus- Proto-Indo-European
- *mūs- Proto-Indo-European
- mosquito Portuguese
- muche Portuguese
- mousche Old French
- musche Old French
- muŝo Esperanto
- muscă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- musho Ido
- mushkonjë Albanian
- mousche Middle French
- musca Old Dutch
- mosca Old Portuguese
- muscã Aromanian
- mushconj Aromanian
- mostga Romansh
- muos-cha Romansh
- mustga Romansh
- mosca Asturian
- moscje Friulian
- mosca Old Occitan
- mosca Old Spanish
- mósca Venetian
- mus Basque
- muasca Dalmatian
- מושקה Ladino
- mus Mauritian Creole
- mus zon Mauritian Creole
- moxhe Walloon
- môche Bourguignon
- mouch Antillean Creole
- moschetto roa-oit