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語源

Learned borrowing from Latin mūcus.

Partly displaced 古期英語 slīm, whence modern slime.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmjuːkəs/
• 韻: -uːkəs
• ハイフネーション: mu‧cus
• Homophone: mucous

名詞

mucus (usually uncountable, plural mucuses or muci)

1. (physiology) A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes.

   Hyponyms: phlegm, rheum

   The mucus in coryza may vary from runny to viscous.

2. (botany) Short for vegetable mucus

使用する際の注意点

• Not to be confused with mucous (adjective).

派生語

関連する語

参考

• booger
• snot
• phlegm

アナグラム

• CUSUM

語源

From Proto-Italic *moukos, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Cognates include Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmuː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmuː.kus]

名詞

mūcus m (genitive mūcī); second declension

1. mucus

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• mūcēdō
• mūceō
• mūcidus
• mūcōsus
• mūculentus

関連する語

• mūcō

派生した語

参照

• “mucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mucus", 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)
• “mucus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.