Translingual

Musca domestica

Etymology

From Latin musca ‎(“fly”).

Proper noun

Musca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Muscidae – some flies, including the housefly.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Diptera - order; Brachycera - suborder; Muscomorpha - infraorder; Schizophora - section; Calyptrata - subsection; Muscoidea - superfamily; Muscidae - family; Muscinae - subfamily; Muscini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Musca aethiops, Musca afra, Musca albina, Musca alpesa, Musca amita, Musca asiatica, Musca autumnalis (face fly), Musca bakeri, Musca bezzii, Musca biseta, Musca cadaverum, Musca calleva, Musca callvea, Musca capensis, Musca cassara, Musca conducens, Musca confiscata, Musca convexifrons, Musca craggi, Musca crassirostris, Musca curviforceps, Musca dasyops, Musca domestica (common housefly), Musca elatior, Musca emdeni, Musca ethiopica, Musca fergusoni, Musca fletcheri, Musca formosana, Musca freedmani, Musca gabonensis, Musca heidiae, Musca hervei, Musca hugonis, Musca illingworthi, Musca inferior, Musca intermedia, Musca larvipara, Musca lasiopa, Musca lasiophthalma, Musca liberia, Musca lindneri, Musca lothari, Musca lucidula, Musca lusoria, Musca mactans, Musca malaisei, Musca mallochi, Musca meruensis, Musca munroi, Musca negriabdomina, Musca nevilli, Musca osiris, Musca patersoni, Musca pattoni, Musca pilifacies, Musca planiceps, Musca pseudocorvina, Musca ruralis, Musca santoshi, Musca seniorwhitei, Musca setulosa, Musca somalorum, Musca sorbens, Musca spangleri, Musca splendens, Musca stabulans, Musca striatacta, Musca suecica, Musca tahitiensis, Musca tempestatum, Musca tempestiva, Musca terraereginae, Musca tibetana, Musca transvaalensis, Musca ugandae, Musca ventrosa, Musca vetustissima, Musca vilis, Musca villeneuvii, Musca vitripennis, Musca wittweri, Musca xanthomelas (species)

English

Constellation map featuring Musca, centre

Proper noun

Musca

1. (astronomy) An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.

Derived terms

• Muscae

Translations

Anagrams

• sumac

Latin

musca (a fly)

Noun

musca f ‎(genitive muscae); first declension

1. a fly (insect)

   Puer, abige muscas.

   Repel those flies, boy.

2. (transferred meaning) an inquisitive or prying people

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• muscārium
• muscārius

Descendants

References

• musca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• musca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MUSCA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “musca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• musca in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• musca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Noun

musca f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of muscă.