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Webster 1913 Edition

Musca

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Mus′ca

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p
rop.
Noun.
;
pl.
Muscae
(#)
.
[L., a fly.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.
☞ Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus
Musca
.
2.
(Astron.)
A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole.
Muscae volitantes
.
[L., flying flies.]
(Med.)
Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or gliding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

Definition 2025

mușca

mușca

See also: musca, Musca, muscã, and muscă

Romanian

Alternative forms

Verb

a mușca ‎(third-person singular present mușcă, past participle mușcat) 1st conj.

  1. to bite

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • mușcare
  • mușcător
  • mușcătură

See also

References

  1. ↑ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

Etymology

Uncertain. Starting from the dialectal variant form mucica, possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *muticāre, from Latin mutīre, a parallel formation of mussāre "to murmur" (compare Spanish amusgar, from *mussicāre). It may have referred to the growl of an animal before biting. Another etymology may be *muccicāre, from mucculare, from muccus, or from a crossing of muccus with morsicāre (compare Sicilian muzzicari, Neapolitan and Tarantino muzzecà, muzzecare, also Romanian murseca). [1] Compare Aromanian mushcu, mãshcu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [muʃˈka]

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