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
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Etymograph / Latin mūs