musaraneus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • mūs arāneus

Etymology

From mūs (“mouse”) + arāneus (“of a spider”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /muː.saˈraː.ne.us/, [muːs̠äˈräːneʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mu.saˈra.ne.us/, [mus̬äˈräːneus]

Noun

mūsarāneus m (genitive mūsarāneī); second declension

  1. a shrew

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mūsarāneus mūsarāneī
Genitive mūsarāneī mūsarāneōrum
Dative mūsarāneō mūsarāneīs
Accusative mūsarāneum mūsarāneōs
Ablative mūsarāneō mūsarāneīs
Vocative mūsarānee mūsarāneī

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: musaragno
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Middle French: merisengne, mesiraigne
    • Walloon: miserette, mesirette (possibly)
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mureganeus
    • Padanian:
      • Ladin: müsgagn ⇒ müsgòt, masugòt (“bat”); musgaign (“shrew”)
      • ⇒? Lombard: morjeu, morijeu (“mouse”)
        Bresciano: morgano (“rat”)
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
      • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: meurge
      • Gallo: migren
      • ⇒ Lorrain: meurjotte
      • Tourangeau: musgregne
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:

References
  • “mygale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • musaraneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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