muscle
Norman
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) muscle
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mūsculus (muscle, little mouse, a muscle, mussel muscle, mussel) derived from Ancient Greek μῦς (mouse, muscle, mussel).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μῦς
Gloss
mouse, muscle, mussel
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鼠
Emoji
🐁 🐭 🖱️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mussel English
- *musclus Latin
- *mūsclus Latin
- muscularis Latin
- musculosus Latin
- mūsculus Latin
- Muskel German
- mye French
- músculo Spanish, Castilian
- μυάγρα Ancient Greek
- μυάκανθος Ancient Greek
- μυγαλέη Ancient Greek
- μυοσωτίς Ancient Greek
- μῦς Ancient Greek
- ὅπλον Ancient Greek
- *múh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- músculo Portuguese
- muscelle Old English
- myo- Czech
- musclo Catalan, Valencian
- músculo Galician
- muscula Old High German
- m. Translingual
- muscle Middle French
- muscle Occitan
- mišica Slovene
- músculu Asturian