musca

musca (plural muscae)

1. Short for musca volitans.

From a Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

See also Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), and the Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “a fly”) of which μυΐσκη (muḯskē) may be a diminutive form. Compare the German Mücke (“midge”) and English midge, midget.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmus.ka/, [ˈmʊs̠kä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmus.ka/, [ˈmuskä]

musca f (genitive muscae); first declension

1. a fly (insect)

   Puer, abige muscas.

   Repel those flies, boy.

2. (transferred meaning) an inquisitive or prying person

First-declension noun.

• muscārium
• muscārius

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• musca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• musca in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

musca

1. Alternative form of muske

musca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of muscă

From Latin musca. Compare Italian mosca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus.ka/
• Hyphenation: mù‧sca

musca f (plural muschi)

1. fly (insect)

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “musca”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 2619–2620