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mustus
mustus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”). Cognate with Old High German mos (“moss”) (German Moos), Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus (“moss”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmus.tus/, [ˈmʊs.tʊs]
Adjective
mustus m (feminine musta, neuter mustum); first/second declension
- fresh, young
- unfermented (wine)
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mustus | musta | mustum | mustī | mustae | musta | |
| genitive | mustī | mustae | mustī | mustōrum | mustārum | mustōrum | |
| dative | mustō | mustō | mustīs | ||||
| accusative | mustum | mustam | mustum | mustōs | mustās | musta | |
| ablative | mustō | mustā | mustō | mustīs | |||
| vocative | muste | musta | mustum | mustī | mustae | musta | |
Derived terms
References
- mustus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mustus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.