mus

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Muscogee, from Creek Mvskoke.

Symbol

mus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Creek.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Creek terms

English

Noun

mus

1. plural of mu

Anagrams

• UMs, sum, MSU, UMS, Sum, ums

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch muts, from Middle Dutch mutse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mœs/

Noun

mus (plural musse)

1. soft brimless hat, tuque

Asturian

Alternative forms

• mux
• musu
• muxu
• mis
• mix

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/ [ˈmus]

Interjection

mus

1. interjection used to call cats

Derived terms

• muxín

Basque

Etymology

From earlier mux, probably from French mouche (“fly”). However, compare musu (“kiss”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mus inan

1. (card games) A traditional Basque card game.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːˀs/, [muˀs]

Noun

mus c (singular definite musen, plural indefinite mus)

1. mouse (animal)
2. mouse (for a computer)

Declension

Declension of mus

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mus	musen	mus	musene
genitive	mus'	musens	mus'	musenes

Derived terms

• dværgmus c
• flagermus c
• husmus c
• spidsmus c

References

• “mus” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mus” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Enkele mussen op een geliefde voederplaats. — A number of sparrows on a favourite foraging location.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mussche, from Old Dutch musca, from Latin muscio, derived from musca (“fly”).

Cognate with Limburgish mösj, Central Franconian Mösch, Mesch, Luxembourgish Mësch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʏs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

Noun

mus f (plural mussen, diminutive musje n)

1. sparrow, bird of the family Passeridae, especially of the genus Passer and a few other genera

Derived terms

• grasmus
• heggenmus
• huismus
• moabmus
• musvalk
• ringmus
• rotsmus
• slootmus

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mossie
• → Papiamentu: mùs

Estonian

Pronoun

mus

1. inessive singular of ma

Fala

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wéy ~ *nō̆s

Proto-Italic *nōs

Latin nōs

Old Galician-Portuguese nos

Fala mus

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nos, from Latin nōs (“we; us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Pronoun

mus

1. (Lagarteiru) First person plural dative and accusative pronoun; us

See also

Fala personal pronouns

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
singular	first person		ei	me, -mi		mi
	second person		tú	te, -ti		ti
	third person	m	el	le, -li	uLV, oM	el
		f	ela		a	ela
plural	first person	common	nos	musL nusLV nos, -nusM		nos
		m	noshotrusM			noshotrusM
		f	noshotrasM			noshotrasM
	second person	common	vos	vusLV vos, -vusM		vos
		m	voshotrusM			voshotrusM
		f	voshotrasM			voshotrasM
	third person	m	elis	le, -li	usLV, osM	elis
		f	elas		as	elas
third person reflexive			—	se, -si		sí

Dialects:  ^L Lagarteiru   ^M Mañegu   ^V Valverdeñu

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 207

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

mus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of mouvoir

Participle

mus m pl

1. masculine plural of mû

Interlingua

Noun

mus (plural muses)

1. mouse

   Synonym: mure

Latin

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Sanskrit मूष् (mū́ṣ), Old English mūs (English mouse), Old High German mūs (German Maus), Proto-Slavic *myšь (Russian мышь (myšʹ)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmus]

Noun

mūs m or f (genitive mūris); third declension

1. a mouse; a rat ((classically) the European black rat (Rattus rattus))

   Synonym: rattus (“rat”) (Medieval Latin)

   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 1.2.6:

     Quasi mures semper edere alienum cibum.

     Like mice they always ate the food of other people.

2. (loosely) with various qualifiers, used indiscriminately to describe any rodent or mouse-looking animal

   mūs arāneus ― shrew (literally, “spider-mouse”, or “spider-rodent”)

   Synonym: sōrex

   mūs Alpīnus ― marmot (literally, “Alpine mouse” or “Alpine rodent”)

   mūs Ponticus ― ermine (literally, “Pontic mouse”, or “Pontic rodent”)

   mūs marīnus ― an unknown sea-fish mentioned by Pliny, Naturalis Historia 9.35.71 (literally, “sea-mouse”, or “sea-rodent”)

3. (transferred senses):
   1. (endearing) as a term of endearment
      • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 11.29.3–4:

        Nam cum me murem, cum me tua lumina dicis,
        Horis me refici vix puto posse decem.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. (derogatory) as a term of abuse
      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 58.4:

        Vix me teneo, nec sum natura caldicerebrius, <sed> cum coepi, matrem meam dupundii non facio. Recte, videbo te in publicum, mus, immo terrae tuber: […]

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (computing, New Latin) a computer mouse
5. (New Latin) a sea mouse (Aphrodita aculeata)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem or imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mūrēs
genitive	mūris	mūrium mūrum
dative	mūrī	mūribus
accusative	mūrem	mūrēs mūrīs
ablative	mūre	mūribus
vocative	mūs	mūrēs

Derived terms

• *mūricāneus
• mūricīdus
• mūricus
• mūrilegus
• mūrīnus
• murriō
• mūs caecus
• mūs montānus
• mūsarāneus
• mūscellārium
• mūscerda
• mūscipula
• mūsculus

Related terms

• mūrex
• mūrilegulus
• mūscipulātor
• mūstēla
• mūstricula

Descendants

• Italian: mure (archaic)
• Romansh: mieur
• ⇒ Venetan: moreja, morecia
• Occitan:
  • ⇒ Provençal: muret (“marmot”)
  • ⇒ Vivaro-Alpine: muret (“marmot”)

    Valadas: mure (“marmot”)

• Asturian: mur, mure
  • ⇒ Asturian: murar
  • ⇒ Asturian: murera (“mousehole”)
• ⇒ Leonese: murar
• Old Galician-Portuguese: mur
  • ⇒ Galician: murar
  • Portuguese: mure, muro
• Old Spanish: mur
  • ⇒ Old Spanish: murar
• Padanian:
  • ⇒ Lombard: muson (“shrew”)
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: musèt (“shrew”); muson (“shrew, mole”)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: musèt (“shrew”)
• → Translingual: Mus (learned)

Further reading

• “mūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "mus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “mus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Anagrams

• sum

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʊs]
• Rhymes: -ʊs
• Syllabification: mùs

Pronoun

mùs

1. first-person plural accusative of mes

Maltese

Root
m-w-s
2 terms

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic مُوسًى (mūsan). Compare Moroccan Arabic موس (mūs), Libyan Arabic موس (mūs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

mus m (plural mwies)

1. pocket knife, folding knife, jack-knife, switchblade

Derived terms

• mus tal-leħja

See also

• sikkina

Maonan

Noun

mus

1. pig

Mauritian Creole

Noun

mus

1. alternative spelling of mous (“fly”)

References

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 234

Middle English

Noun

mus

1. alternative form of mous

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German mūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmuːs̠/

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (strong feminine ending in a consonant)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	diu	mūs	die	miuse
genitive	einer	dër	miuse, mūs	dër	miuse
dative	einer	dër	miuse, mūs	dën	miusen
accusative	eine	die	mūs	die	miuse

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Muus, Müss (Uri)
• Central Franconian: Muus, Mus (variant spelling), Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)
  • Hunsrik: Maus
  • Luxembourgish: Maus
• Cimbrian: maus
• German: Maus
• Vilamovian: maojs
• Yiddish: מויז (moyz)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “MÛS”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel.
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “mūs”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), 3rd edition

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːs/

Pronoun

mūs

1. locative of mun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mús.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Noun

mus m or f (definite singular musen or musa, indefinite plural mus, definite plural musene)

1. mouse (rodent)

   Jeg håper det ikke er mus i huset.

   I hope there aren't any mice in the house.

2. mouse (computing)

   Venstreklikk med musa di.

   Left click with your mouse.

4. (colloquial, vulgar, anatomy) pussy (female genitalia)

   Mus er noe jenter har mellom beina.

   A pussy is something girls have between their legs.

Derived terms

• datamus
• museklikk
• spissmus
• bollemus

References

• “mus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

husmus (Mus musculus)

datamus

Etymology

From Old Norse mús (nominative and accusative plurals mýss), from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse, a coinage.

Germanic cognates include Icelandic mús, Faroese mús, Danish mus, Swedish mus, German Maus, German Low German Muus, Dutch muis, and English mouse. Indo-European cognates include Albanian mi, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Armenian մուկ (muk), Hindi मूस (mūs), Latin mūs, Persian موش, and Russian мышь (myšʹ).

(computing): Semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Noun

mus f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural myser or mus, definite plural mysene or musene)

2. (rodent) a mouse
4. (colloquial, vulgar, anatomy) pussy (female genitalia)
6. (computing) computer mouse

Usage notes

• This noun is often used in compounds as a first part to emphasize little size.

Synonyms

• ((vulgar) female genitalia): fitte, kuse, kunte, vulva
• (computer mouse): datamus, skjermpilot

Derived terms

• austmarkmus
• bjørkemus
• brannmus
• bymus
• datamus
• dvergmus
• fjellmarkmus
• fjellmus
• flaggermus
• gråsidemus
• gå ned mann og mus
• havmus
• husmus
• katt og mus
• klatremus
• klivemus
• leddmus
• lemus
• markmus
• moskusmus
• musande
• musearm
• museart
• musebit
• musebol
• musebrun
• musebøle
• musefamilie
• musefelle
• museflette
• musefoll
• musegrå
• musehòl
• museklikk
• museknapp
• musekule
• muselort
• musematte
• musepeikar
• musereir
• musert
• musesjuke
• museskritt
• musestille
• musesykje
• musete
• musunge
• musvåk
• musøyre
• når katter er vekke, dansar musene på bordet
• raudmus
• skapmus
• skogmus
• småskogmus
• snømus
• spissmus
• storskogmus
• ullmus
• vass-spissmus
• vassmus

See also

• lus f (“louse”) (for its morphological similarities)
• gnagar, rotte, vånd

References

• “mus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mus”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.
• “mus” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Anagrams

• sum

Nuxalk

Nuxalk numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: mus

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Salish *mus (both meanings).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

mus

1. (transitive) to feel, touch something

Numeral

mus

1. four

References

• Nater, Hank (2022), The Nuxalk Language: (lexicon, narratives, grammar), →DOI, pages 113, 521

Old English

Alternative forms

• muus

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse
2. muscle

Declension

Strong consonant stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mȳs
accusative	mūs	mȳs
genitive	mȳs, mūse	mūsa
dative	mȳs	mūsum

Derived terms

• mūsfealle (“mousetrap”)

Descendants

• Middle English: mous, mouse, mowse, mows, mus, mowce, muse
  • English: mouse (see there for further descendants), moose (Northumbrian); muss
  • Scots: moose

Old High German

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *mūs.

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (feminine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mūsi
accusative	mūs	mūsi
genitive	mūsi	mūso
dative	mūsi	mūsim, mūsen

Descendants

• Middle High German: mūs
  • Alemannic German: Muus, Müss (Uri)
  • Central Franconian: Muus, Mus (variant spelling), Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)
    • Hunsrik: Maus
    • Luxembourgish: Maus
  • Cimbrian: maus
  • German: Maus
  • Vilamovian: maojs
  • Yiddish: מויז (moyz)

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “mūs”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), 6th edition

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

mūs (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mūs
accusative	musi	musi
genitive	musi	musi
dative	mūsiō	mūsium
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: mûs
  • Low German: Muus
  • Plautdietsch: Mus

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (consonant stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mūs	mūsin, mūsren mūserin, mūseren mūsern	mȳs	mȳssinar, -ena(r)
accusative	mūs	mūsina, mūsena	mȳs	mȳssinar, -ena(r)
dative	mūs	mūsinni, mūsinne	mūsum, mūsom	mūsumin, mūsomen
genitive	mūsa, mūsar	mūsinna, mūsinnar	mūsa	mūsanna

Descendants

• Swedish: mus

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/

• (Masovia):
  • (Łowicz) IPA^(key): [ˈmus]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *med-der.

Proto-Germanic *mōtaną

Proto-West Germanic *mōtan

Old High German muoȥanbor.

Old Czech musitibor.

Old Polish musieć

Polish musiećdeverb.

Polish mus

Deverbal from musieć.

Noun

mus m inan

1. (colloquial) constraint, coercion, must

   Synonym: przymus

Declension

Declension of mus

	singular
nominative	mus
genitive	musu
dative	musowi
accusative	mus
instrumental	musem
locative	musie
vocative	musie

Verb

mus impf (defective)

1. (intransitive, impersonal, Łowicz) synonym of trzeba

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Spanish mozobor.

French moussebor.

German Moussebor.

Polish mus

Borrowed from German Mousse, borrowed from French mousse. Doublet of mech.

Noun

mus m inan

1. mousse (airy pudding served chilled)
2. (cosmetics) mousse

Declension

Declension of mus

	singular	plural
nominative	mus	musy
genitive	musu	musów
dative	musowi	musom
accusative	mus	musy
instrumental	musem	musami
locative	musie	musach
vocative	musie	musy

Further reading

• “mus”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “mus”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)
• mus in PWN's encyclopedia
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “mus”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
• Halina Świderska (1929), “mus”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 115

Portuguese

Noun

mus

1. plural of mu

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish mozobor.

French moussebor.

Romanian mus

Borrowed from French mousse.

Noun

mus m (plural muși)

1. cabin boy

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mus	musul	muși	mușii
genitive-dative	mus	musului	muși	mușilor
vocative	musule		mușilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Basque mus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/ [ˈmus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Noun

mus m (uncountable)

1. (card games) a card game that is very popular in Spain

Derived terms

• sin decir chus ni mus
• sin decir tus ni mus

Further reading

• “mus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English must.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

mus

1. (auxiliary) to have to, must

Swedish

en mus (husmus (“house mouse”))

Etymology

From Old Swedish mūs, from Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Noun

mus c

1. mouse; small rodent of the genus Mus; especially species Mus musculus
2. (computing) a computer mouse; an input device
3. (colloquial) a pussy; female genitalia

Declension

Declension of mus 1, 2

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mus	mus
	definite	musen	musens
plural	indefinite	möss	möss
	definite	mössen	mössens

Declension of mus 3

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mus	mus
	definite	musen	musens
plural	indefinite	musar	musars
	definite	musarna	musarnas

Synonyms

• (small rodent): Mus musculus
• (input device): datormus

female genitalia

• fitta (vulgar, colloquial)
• kutta
• mutta
• skäggbiff
• slida
• snippa
• vagina

Related terms

animal

• hasselmus
• husmus
• musfälla
• musgrå
• muskel
• näbbmus
• tyst som en mus

computers

• datormus
• musarm
• musknapp
• musmatta
• muspekare

See also

• pekdon
• råtta
• sork

References

• “mus”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “mus”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “mus”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken

Unami

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Noun

mus anim (plural musàk)

1. elk, moose

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Venetan

Noun

mus

1. (Chipilo) donkey

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmongic *n-mʉŋᴮ (“to go”), from Proto-Hmong-Mien *n-mʉŋ(X) (“id”). Cognate with Proto-Mienic *n-mɨŋᴬ (“id”), whence Iu Mien mingh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu˩/

Verb

mus

1. to go

Interjection

mus

1. shoo!

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[6], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 132.