muscle
French
noun
Definitions
- musclemuscle (contractile tissue, strength)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French muscle borrowed from Latin mūsculus (muscle, little mouse, a muscle, mussel muscle, mussel).
Origin
Latin
mūsculus
Gloss
muscle, little mouse, a muscle, mussel muscle, mussel
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mussel English
- *musclus Latin
- *mūsclus Latin
- muscularis Latin
- musculosus Latin
- musculus Latin
- mūsculus Latin
- Muskel German
- músculo Spanish, Castilian
- μῦς Ancient Greek
- músculo Portuguese
- muscelle Old English
- muscle Middle English
- musclo Catalan, Valencian
- músculo Galician
- muscula Old High German
- m. Translingual
- muscle Norman
- muscle Middle French
- muscle Occitan
- mišica Slovene
- músculu Asturian
- misk Haitian, Haitian Creole