# mouse
## English
### Alternative forms

* mowse (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s.
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš),Northern Kurdish mişk,Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.

### Pronunciation
#### Noun

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: mous, IPA: /maʊs/
** Audio (UK):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /mʌʊs/
* Rhymes: -aʊs

#### Verb

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA: /maʊs/, /maʊz/
* (Canada) IPA: /mʌʊs/, /mʌʊz/
* Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

### Noun

mouse (plural mice or (computing) mouses)
* Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
* (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
* A quiet or shy person.
* (computing) (plural mice or mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
    move the mouse over the icon (that is, move the mouse so that the pointer moves over the icon)
* (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
* (nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
* (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
** c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 4:Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
* A match used in firing guns or blasting.
* (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
* (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.
* Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
    Synonym: mouse buttock

#### Hypernyms

* (small rodent): rodent

#### Hyponyms

* birch mouse (Sicista spp.)
* bristly mouse
* cactus mouse
* church mouse
* Cypriot mouse
* deer mouse
* dormouse
* fat mouse
* field mouse
* harvest mouse
* hopping mouse
* house mouse (Mus musculus)
* Java mouse-deer
* kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops spp.)
* meadow jumping mouse
* mouse-goat
* mouse-like hamster
* New World mouse
* Old World mouse
* optical mouse
* pouched mouse
* sleep like a mouse
* spiny mouse
* spiny pocket mouse
* St Kilda field mouse
* Taiwan field mouse
* vesper mouse
* woolly mouse opossum
* yellow-necked field mouse
* zebra mouse

#### Coordinate terms

* (small rodent): rat
* (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

#### Derived terms

* a cat in gloves catches no mice
* anonymouse
* antimouse
* Arctic mouse-ear
* are you a man or a mouse
* (as) quiet as a mouse
* Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
* bastard big-footed mouse
* big-footed mouse
* bit by a barn mouse
* brush-furred mouse
* cat-and-mouse
* cat and mouse
* churchmouse
* city mouse
* clit mouse
* cotton mouse
* Count Branicki's mouse
* country mouse
* creepmouse
* Darling Downs hopping mouse
* demouse
* desert mouse
* Doogie mouse
* dormouse
* dust mouse
* fieldmouse
* flindermouse
* flitter-mouse
* flittermouse
* flying mouse
* Formosan wood mouse
* giant mouse lemur
* glacier mouse
* grasshopper mouse
* greater big-footed mouse
* greater mouse-eared bat
* hog mouse
* intermouse
* intramouse
* is there a mouse in your pocket
* joint mouse
* jumping mouse
* knockout mouse
* lab mouse
* laboratory mouse
* left-mouse
* Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
* marsupial mouse
* meadow mouse
* mechanical mouse
* mer-mouse
* mermouse
* mice-less
* micromouse
* Middle Mouse
* Mitchell's hopping mouse
* Mosley
* mousable
* mouseable
* mousebird
* mouse bungee
* mouse button
* mouse click
* mouseclick
* mouse-colored
* mouse-colored antshrike
* mouse-deer
* mouse deer
* mousedom
* mouse-ear
* mouse-eared bat
* mousefall
* mousefish
* mousefucker
* mouse gun
* mouse-hearted
* mousehole
* mousehood
* mouse jiggler
* mouse jiggling
* Mouseketeer
* mousekin
* mousekind
* mouse lemur
* mouseless
* mouselet
* mouselike
* mouseling
* mouselook
* mouse mat
* mouse melon
* mouse mill
* mouseness
* mouse opossum
* mouse-over
* mouseover
* mousepad, mouse pad
* mouse potato
* mousepox
* mouseprint
* mouse print
* mouseproof
* mouser
* mousery
* mousesicle
* mouse-sight
* mouse slip
* mouse spider
* mousetail
* mousetrap
* mouse-warbler
* mouse wheel
* mousework
* mousie
* mousy
* mute as a mouse
* nipple mouse
* nonmouse
* northern birch mouse
* northern grasshopper mouse
* nouse
* oldfield mouse
* oncomouse
* painted bristly mouse
* Petter's big-footed mouse
* play cat and mouse
* pocket mouse
* poor as a church mouse
* premouse
* quiet as a church mouse
* rell-mouse
* reremouse
* ricefield mouse
* right-mouse
* rock mouse
* Rudd's mouse
* sable mouse
* sand mouse
* seamouse
* sea mouse
* sheath-tailed mouse
* shrewmouse
* striped field mouse
* strong enough to trot a mouse on
* sugar mouse
* supermouse
* the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray
* the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
* timid as a mouse
* vertical mouse
* water mouse
* when the cat's away the mice will play
* white-footed mouse
* woodmouse
* wood mouse
* yellow-necked mouse
* you got a mouse in your pocket

#### Related terms

* muss

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: মাউস (maus)
* → Brazilian Portuguese: mouse
* → French: souris (semantic loan)
* → Georgian: მაუსი (mausi)
* → Italian: mouse
* → Japanese: マウス (mausu)
* → Korean: 마우스 (mauseu)
* → Romanian: mouse
* → Spanish: mouse
* → Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)
* → Vietnamese: chuột (semantic loan)

#### Translations

Abkhaz: аҳәынаҧ (aḥʷənap)
Afrikaans: muis (af)
Ainu: エㇾㇺ (erm), エㇾム (ermu), エルㇺ (erum)
Albanian: mi (sq) m
Amharic: አይጥ (ʾäyṭ)
Andi: гьинкӏкӏу (hinkkʼu)
Arabic: فَأْرَة f (faʔra), (mouse or rat) فَأْر m (faʔr)
Egyptian Arabic: فار (fār)
Moroccan Arabic: فار (fār)
Aragonese: zorz
Armenian: մուկ (hy) (muk)
Old Armenian: մուկն (mukn)
Aromanian: shoaric
Assamese: নিগনি (nigoni)
Asturian: ratu (ast) m, ratón (ast) m, mur (ast), mure m
Atayal: olit (mouse or rat)
Avar: гӏункӏкӏ (ʻunkkʼ)
Aymara: achaku (ay)
Azerbaijani: siçan (az)
Balinese: (mouse or rat) bikul, jero ketut
Baluchi: مشک (mušk), موشک (múšk)
Bashkir: сысҡан (sısqan)
Basque: sagu (eu)
Belarusian: мыш f (myš), мы́шка f (mýška)
Bengali: (mouse or rat) ইঁদুর (bn) (ĩdur)
Bhojpuri: मूस (mūs)
Bouyei: ranz, waauc
Breton: logodenn (br) f
Bulgarian: ми́шка (bg) f (míška), мишо́к m (mišók) (male)
Burmese: (mouse or rat) ကြွက် (my) (krwak)
Catalan: ratolí (ca) m
Cebuano: ilaga
Chamicuro: kijsili
Chechen: дахка (daxka)
Cherokee: (mouse or rat) ᏥᏍᏕᏥ (tsisdetsi)
Chichewa: mbewa
Chickasaw: pinti'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 老鼠 (lou$^5$ syu$^2$)
Dungan: лочў (ločw)
Eastern Min: 老鼠 (lō̤-chṳ̄)
Gan: 老鼠 (lau$^3$ xy)
Hakka: 老鼠 (lo-chhú, ló-chhú, no-chhú)
Hokkien: 鳥鼠 / 鸟鼠 (zh-min-nan) (niáu-chhí, niáu-chhú), 鼠 (zh-min-nan) (chhí, chhú), 錢鼠 / 钱鼠 (zh-min-nan) (chîⁿ-chhí, chîⁿ-chhú), 老鼠 (ló͘-chhír, ló͘-chhí, niáu-chhú, niáu-chhí, niáu-chhír)
Jin: 老鼠 (lau$^2$ su$^2$)
Mandarin: 老鼠 (zh) (lǎoshǔ) (mouse or rat), 鼠 (zh) (shǔ) (mouse or rat), 耗子 (zh) (hàozi) (dialectal, mouse or rat), 小鼠 (zh) (xiǎoshǔ) (technical), 鼷 (zh) (xī) (literary)
Wu: 老鼠 ($^6$lau-tshy), 老蟲 / 老虫 ($^6$lau-zon)
Xiang: 老鼠子 (lau$^3$ xy$^3$ zr)
Chukchi: пипиӄыԓгын (pipiqyḷgyn)
Chuvash: шӑши (šăš̬i)
Cornish: logosen f
Crimean Tatar: sıçan
Czech: myš (cs) f, myšák (cs) m (male)
Dalmatian: surco m
Danish: mus (da) c
Dhivehi: މީދާ (mīdā)
Dutch: muis (nl) f
Eastern Arrernte: thakwere
Egyptian: (pnw)
Erzya: чеерь (čejeŕ)
Esperanto: muso (eo), (♀) musino, musido, (♀) musidino
Estonian: hiir (et)
Even: ча̄ма̇кчан (cāmȧkcan)
Evenki: сиңэрэкэн
Ewe: afi n
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: mús (fo) f
Finnish: hiiri (fi)
French: (mouse or rat) souris (fr) f
Friulian: surîs f
Galician: rato (gl) m
Georgian: თაგვი (ka) (tagvi)
German: Maus (de) f
Alemannic German: Muus f
Greek: ποντίκι (el) n (pontíki), ποντικός (el) m (pontikós)
Ancient: μῦς m (mûs), ποντικός m (pontikós)
Greenlandic: teriaq
Gujarati: ઉંદર (undar)
Hausa: ɓera
Hawaiian: ʻiole liʻiliʻi
Hebrew: עַכְבָּר (he) m (akhbár)
Hiligaynon: ilaga, balabaw
Hindi: (mouse or rat) चूहा (hi) m (cūhā)
Hungarian: egér (hu)
Icelandic: mús (is) f
Ido: muso (io)
Igbo: ọke
Ilocano: bao
Inari Sami: säplig
Indonesian: (mouse or rat) tikus (id)
Ingush: дахка (daxka)
Interlingua: mus, mure
Irish: luch (ga) f, luchóg (ga) f
Italian: topo (it) m, sorcio (it) m
Japanese: (mouse or rat) 鼠 (ja) (ねずみ, nezumi), ネズミ (ja) (nezumi), ハツカネズミ (ja) (hatsukanezumi), マウス (ja) (mausu)
Jarai: tơkuih
Javanese: tikus (jv)
Kalasha: mizók
Kalmyk: хулһн (xulğn)
Kannada: (mouse or rat) ಇಲಿ (kn) (ili)
Kanuri: jilwa
Kapampangan: dagis (mouse or rat)
Karelian: hiiri
Kashubian: mësz f
Kazakh: тышқан (tyşqan)
Khmer: កណ្ដុរស្រូវ (kɑndao srəw), កណ្ដុរ (km) (kɑndol) (mouse or rat)
Khowar: خڑاو (xaɫáu)
Kipchak:
Armeno-Kipchak: սըչխան (sïč̣χan)
Korean: 생쥐 (ko) (saengjwi), (mouse or rat) 쥐 (ko) (jwi)
Kriol: brudbrud
Kunigami: っゑっちゅー (wwecchū)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مشک (mişk)
Northern Kurdish: mişk (ku)
Kven: hiiri
Kyrgyz: чычкан (ky) (cıckan)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Lao: (mouse or rat) ໜູ (lo) (nū)
Latgalian: pele
Latin: (mouse or rat) mūs (la) m or f
Latvian: pele (lv) f
Lezgi: кьиф (q̇if)
Lithuanian: pelė (lt) f, pelėnas m
Lombard: ratt (lmo)
Low German:
German Low German: Muus (nds) f
Lü: ᦐᦴ (ṅuu)
Luganda: emmese
Lushootseed: k'ʷat'ad
Luxembourgish: Maus (lb) f
Macedonian: глушец (mk) m (glušec), глувче n (gluvče), миш m (miš) (dialectal), глушец (mk) m (glušec)
Malay: (mouse or rat) tikus (ms), mencit
Malayalam: ചുണ്ടെലി (ml) (cuṇṭeli)
Maltese: ġurdien m
Manchu: ᠰᡳᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ (singgeri)
Mansi:
Northern Mansi: ма̄порсуй (māporsuj)
Manx: lugh m
Maori: kiore (mi)
Marathi: उंन्दिर (unndir)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: коля (koĺa)
Western Mari: каля (kaĺa)
Mazanderani: گل (gal)
Mi'kmaq: apigji'j anim, apugji'j anim
Mirandese: rato m
Miyako: ゆむぬ (yumunu)
Moksha: шеер (šejer)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хулгана (mn) (xulgana), оготно (mn) (ogotno)
Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ᠎ᠠ (quluɣan-a), ᠣᠭᠤᠲᠤᠨ᠎ᠠ (oɣutun-a)
Mpade: kusumu
Mwani: muku
Nahuatl: quimichin (nah)
Nanai: сиӈэрэ (siŋere)
Navajo: naʼatsʼǫǫsí
Neapolitan: sorece m
Nepali: मुसो (ne) (muso)
Newar: please add this translation if you can
Nivkh: мухтук (muxtuk)
Norman: souothis f
North Frisian: müs n
Northern Sami: sáhpán
Northern Thai: ᩉ᩠ᨶᩪ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mus (no) m or f
Nynorsk: mus f
Occitan: mirga (oc) f, fureta f, ratuga (oc) f
Odia: ମୂଷା (or) (mushā)
Ojibwe: waawaabiganoojiinh
Okinawan: ゑんちゅ (wenchu)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: мꙑшь f (myšĭ)
Glagolitic: ⰿⱏⰹⱎⱐ f (myšĭ)
Old East Slavic: мꙑшь f (myšĭ)
Old English: mūs
Old Prussian: pelē
Osage: įchóka
Ossetian: мыст (myst)
Ottoman Turkish: صیچان (sıçan), فاره (fare), موش (muş) (mouse or rat)
Pannonian Rusyn: миш m (miš), миша f (miša)
Pashto: موږک (ps) m (muģak)
Persian:
Dari: (mouse or rat) مُوش (mūš)
Iranian Persian: (mouse or rat) موش (fa) (muš), مُشْک (mošk) (dialectal)
Plautdietsch: Mus (nds) f
Polish: mysz (pl) f, myszka (pl) f
Portuguese: rato (pt) m, (Brazil) camundongo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਚੂਹਾ (pa) (cūhā)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਚੂਹਾ (pa) m (cūhā)
Shahmukhi: چُوہا m (cūhā)
Quechua: ukuca, ukuş, juk'ucha
Romanian: șoarece (ro) m
Romansch: mieur
Russian: мышь (ru) f (myšʹ), мы́шка (ru) f (mýška)
Rwanda-Rundi: umushushwe class 3/4, imbeba class 9/10 (Rwanda), im-beba (Rundi)
S'gaw Karen: ယုၢ် (yu̱)
Saek: (mouse or rat) หนู่
Samoan: 'isumu, 'iole
Sanskrit: मूष् (sa) m or f (mūṣ), आखु (sa) m (ākhu)
Sardinian: tope, topi
Campidanese: medrona f, topi, sórixi m
Scots: moose
Scottish Gaelic: luch f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ми̏ш m
Roman: mȉš (sh) m
Shan: ၼူ (shn) (nǔu)
Sicilian: surci (scn) m, sùrici (scn) m
Sindhi: ڪوُئو (kūʾō)
Sinhalese: මීයා (mīyā)
Skolt Sami: sä´ppli
Slovak: myš (sk) f
Slovene: miš (sl) f
Somali: jiir (so) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: myš f, myška
Upper Sorbian: myš f, myška f
Sotho: tweba (st)
Spanish: ratón (es) m, laucha (es) f (small), pericote (es) m
Swahili: kipanya
Swedish: mus (sv) c
Tagalog: (mouse or rat) daga (tl)
Tahltan: dlūne
Tai Dam: ꪘꪴ
Tajik: (mouse or rat) муш (tg) (muš)
Talysh: морә (morǝ)
Tamil: சுண்டெலி (ta) (cuṇṭeli)
Taos: cìyúna
Tarantino: topo m
Tarifit: aɣerḍa m
Tatar: тычкан (tt) (tıçkan)
Telugu: (mouse or rat) ఎలుక (te) (eluka)
Thai: (mouse or rat) หนู (th) (nǔu)
Tibetan: (mouse or rat) ཙི་ཙི (tsi tsi)
Tigrinya: ኣንጭዋ (ʾanč̣əwa) (mouse or rat)
Tlingit: kagaák
Tok Pisin: liklik rat
Tongan: kumā
Tswana: pêba
Tumbuka: mbewa
Turkish: fare (tr), sıçan (tr)
Turkmen: syçan, sıçan
Udmurt: шыр (šyr)
Ukrainian: ми́ша (uk) f (mýša), миш f (myš), ми́шка f (mýška), миша́к m (myšák) (dialectal)
Urdu: (mouse or rat) چُوہا m (cūhā)
Uyghur: چاشقان (chashqan)
Uzbek: sichqon (uz)
Venetan: ràto, sorze
Vietnamese: (mouse or rat) chuột (vi)
Vilamovian: maojs
Volapük: mug (vo)
Walloon: sori (wa) f
Welsh: llygoden (cy) f, llygod (cy) pl
West Frisian: mûs
White Hmong: nas
Wolof: janax ji
Xhosa: ilifu
Yaeyama: うぇんちゅ (Wenchu)
Yagnobi: муш (muš)
Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyaq)
Yámana: wasána
Yiddish: מויז (moyz)
Yonaguni: うやんとぅ (uyantu)
Yoruba: èkúté, eliri
Zazaki: merre (diq) f
Zhuang: (mouse or rat) nou
Zulu: igundane (zu) class 5/6 :
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### Verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)
* (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
* (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
* (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
    Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
* (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
** 1988, MacUser, volume 4:I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
** 2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35:Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
* (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
** c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:[Death] mousing the flesh of men.

#### Derived terms

* mouse around
* mouse over
* mouser

#### Related terms

* muscle
* mussel

#### Translations
### Further reading

* mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Category:Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
* Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Anagrams

* meous, moues

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English mouse.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): mau$^1$ si$^2$ / maau$^1$ si$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mau$^1$ si$^2$ / maau$^1$ si$^2$
*** Yale: māu sí / māau sí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mau$^1$ si$^2$ / maau$^1$ si$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: meo$^1$ xi$^2$ / mao$^1$ xi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/, /maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

### Noun

mouse
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 鼠標器 Mainland China, 滑鼠 Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 滑鼠 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Malaysia | 滑鼠 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 滑鼠 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 滑鼠, mouse |
| Cantonese | Taishan (Guanghai) | 鼠標 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 滑鼠 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 滑鼠 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 滑鼠 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 滑鼠 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 滑鼠 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 滑鼠 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 鼠標 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 鼠標 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 鼠標 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 滑鼠 |

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.us/
* Rhymes: -aus

### Noun

mouse m (invariable)
* (computing, computer hardware) mouse

#### Derived terms

* tappetino per mouse

### References

* ↑ mouse in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* esumo, esumò, museo

## Middle English
### Noun

mouse
* Alternative form of mous

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaw.zi/, /ˈmawz/

### Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)
* (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
    Synonym: (Portugal) rato
** 1997, Bobbi Linkemer, Secretária eficiente, NBL Editora, →ISBN, page 118:Verifique se a esfera do mouse está limpa. O mouse pad ajuda a mantê-lo limpo.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2015, Douglas Comer, Interligação de Redes com TCP/IP - Vol. 1 - 6ª Edição: Princípios, protocolos e arquitetura, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 48:O usuário só precisa de um dispositivo de interface com a tela, teclado, mouse ou touchpad, e uma conexão de rede.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)
    Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* maus

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

### Noun

mouse n (plural mouse-uri)
* (computing) mouse (for a PC)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaus/ [ˈmau̯s]
* Rhymes: -aus

### Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)
* (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)
    Synonym: ratón

#### Usage notes

* According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “mouse”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “mouse”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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