Moschus

From Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos, “musk”).

Moschus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Moschidae – musk deers.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Artiodactyla – order; Moschidae - family

• (genus): Moschus moschiferus - type species; Moschus anhuiensis, Moschus berezovskii, Moschus chrysogaster, Moschus cupreus, Moschus fuscus, Moschus leucogaster - other species

• Hyemoschus
• Moschiola

• Moschus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Moschus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Moschus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Moschus in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Moschus at AnimalBase
• Moschus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Moschus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Moschus at Paleobiology Database

From Medieval Latin moschus, alternative form of muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /⁠mušk⁠⁠/).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʃʊs/

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Moschus m (strong, genitive Moschus, no plural)

1. musk

• moschusartig
• Moschusduft
• Moschuskraut (“moschatel”)
• Moschustier (“musk deer”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.kʰus/, [ˈmɔs̠kʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.kus/, [ˈmɔskus]

Moschus m sg (genitive Moschī); second declension

1. a Roman cognomen
   • (Can we date this quote?), Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum in praecipuis earumdem collectionibus hactenus praetermissarum, volume 1, Milan, published 1739, inscription no. 5, page 477:

     C. IVLIVS. DORYPHORVS / ET. L. TERENTIVS. PHILETVS / ET. TERENTIA. MOSCHIS / PORTICVM. TECTVM. D. D / PERMISSV. L. TERENTII. MOSCHI

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

Moschus (feminine Moscha, neuter Moschum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Moschian (of or belonging to the Moschi)

First/second-declension adjective.

• “Moschus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press