Latin

mūs

‘mouse’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin mūs.

14 English words in this record descend from Latin mūs, most familiar first.

• muscle ← mūsculus
• mussel ← muscle ← muscle ← *muskulā ← muscula
• murine ← mūrīnus
• musculature ← musculus
• musculus
• murex
• musophobia
• muricidal
• musculous ← musculeux ← mūsculōsus ← mūsculus
• muscule ← musculus
• musculospiral ← musculus
• muricoid ← mūrex

More words from mūs

• musculin
• musion

Etymograph / Latin mūs