masclus

Latin

From Classical Latin masculus (mās +‎ -culus) via syncope of unstressed intertonic /u/.

masclus m (genitive masclī); second declension (Vulgar Latin)

(proscribed) Alternative form of masculus: male
- 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi:
  masculus non masclus
  [Say or write] masculus, not masclus.

Second-declension noun.

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: mascur
- Megleno-Romanian: mascur
- Romanian: mascur, mascul
- → Albanian: mashkull
Dalmatian:
- muosclo
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: maschiu
- Italian: maschio, mastio (Tuscan)
- Neapolitan: mascolo
- Sicilian: màsculu
North Italian:
- Emilian: masc', masti
- Friulian: mascli, mascjo
- Istriot: mas'cio
- Ligurian: màsccio, màscci
- Lombard: mas'c, mah'c, mar'c
- Piedmontese: mas-cc
- Romagnol: masc', masc'e
- Romansch: mastgel, mascal, mascel, mes-cel, mas-cel
- Venetian: mas-cio, mascio
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: mâcllo, mâtllo, mâhcllo
- Old French: masle
  - French: mâle
  - → English: male
- Picard: merle
- Walloon: mâie, maul
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: mascle
- Occitan: mascle
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: masclo, masto, mascllo (Ribagorçan)
- Asturian: machu
- Galician: macho
- Portuguese: macho
- Spanish: macho
  - → English: macho
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
  Campidanese: mascru, mascu, mascuru, masculu
  
  Logudorese: masciu, masculu
  
  Nuorese: mascru

masclus 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)

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