# musca
## English
### Noun

musca (plural muscae)
* Short for musca volitans.

### Anagrams

* CUSMA, sumac, USMCA, musac, Camus, camus

## Latin
### Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mews- (“fly”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “a fly”) (of which μυΐσκη (muḯskē) may be a diminutive form), Old Armenian մուն (mun, “gnat, midge; itch”), German Mücke (“midge”), and English midge, midget.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmus.ka/, [ˈmʊs̠kä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmus.ka/, [ˈmuskä]

### Noun

musca f (genitive muscae); first declension
* a fly (insect)
    Puer, abige muscas.Repel those flies, boy.
* (transferred sense) an inquisitive or prying person

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* muscārium
* muscārius

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: musca
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: muscã
** Istro-Romanian: mușkĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: muscă
** Romanian: muscă
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: muasca
** Italian: mosca
** Neapolitan: mosca, musca
** Sicilian: musca
** Venetan: mósca
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: moscje
** Romansch: mustga
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: mosca
** Franco-Provençal: mouche
** Old French: mousche
*** Middle French: mousche
**** French: mouche
***** → English: mouche
***** → Portuguese: muche
***** → Swedish: musch
***** → Turkish: muş
*** Norman: moûque
*** Walloon: moxhe
** Occitan: mosca
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: mosca
** Old Galician-Portuguese: mosca
*** Fala: mosca
*** Galician: mosca
*** Portuguese: mosca
** Old Spanish: mosca
*** Ladino: moshka (Latin spelling), מושקה (Hebrew spelling)
*** Spanish: mosca
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: musciō
** Catalan: moixó
** Aragonese: muxón
** Old French: muissun
*** Picard: mouchon
*** Walloon: moxhon
** → Old Dutch: musca
*** Middle Dutch: mussche
**** Dutch: mus
**** Afrikaans: mus
**** → West Frisian: mosk
** → Luxembourgish: Mësch

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “musca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397

### Further reading

* “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

## Middle English
### Noun

musca
* Alternative form of muske

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin musca.

### Noun

musca f
* sparrow

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: mussche
** Dutch: mus
*** Afrikaans: mossie
*** → Papiamentu: mùs
* Limburgish: mösj

### Further reading

“muska”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Romanian
### Noun

musca f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of muscă

## Sicilian
### Etymology

From Latin musca. Compare Italian mosca.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmus.ka/
* Hyphenation: mù‧sca

### Noun

musca f (plural muschi)
* fly (insect)

#### Derived terms

* muscazza
* muschiceḍḍa
* muschitta
* muscuni
* muscuzza

#### Related terms

* Cala Muschi
* centu-pedi
* lapa
* ragnu
* sampagghiuni
* scurpiuni
* vespa

#### Descendants

* → Italian: piciolla (regional)

#### See also

* muschettu
* muschittarìa
* muschittata

### References

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