Etymograph

English

muscule

Muscule comes from Latin musculus ‘diminutive of mūs: a small mouse’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*múHs‘mouse’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mūs‘mouse’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmūs‘mouse’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmusculus‘diminutive of mūs: a small mouse’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1701muscule

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*múHs‘mouse’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mūs‘mouse’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmūs‘mouse’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmusculus‘diminutive of mūs: a small mouse’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1701muscule

Earliest quotation: 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Of the Use of Organized Bodies: “For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *múHs ‘mouse’

mice, mouse, myelin, myocardium, 16 more

through Latin mūs ‘mouse’

murine, 10 more

through Latin musculus ‘diminutive of mūs: a small mouse’

muscle, mussel, 5 more

Today it means

noun —

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *múHs / muscule

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