mucus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowingfromLatinmūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈmjuːkəs/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-uːkəs
• Hyphenation:mu‧cus
• Homophone:mucous

Noun

mucus(usuallyuncountable,pluralmucusesormuci)

2. (physiology)Aslipperysecretionfrom theliningof themucous membranes.

   Hyponyms:phlegm,rheum

   Themucusin coryza may vary from runny to viscous.

Usage notes

• Do not confusemucous(adjective)withmucus(noun).

Derived terms

• mucoid
• mucoidal

Related terms

• mucilaginous
• mucosa
• mucositis
• mucous

Translations

slippery secretion

• Albanian:mukozë(sq)f
• Arabic:مُخَاطm(muḵāṭ),نُخَاعَةf(nuḵāʕa)

  Egyptian Arabic:مخاطm(muḵāṭ),بربورm(barbūr),برابيرfpl(barabīr)

• Armenian:լորձ(hy)(lorj)

  Old Armenian:մաղաս(małas)

• Aromanian:mucm,mutsmpl,mucãf
• Asturian:mocum
• Azerbaijani:selik
• Belarusian:слізьf(slizʹ)
• Bulgarian:слузf(sluz)
• Burmese:အချွဲ(my)(a.hkywai:)
• Catalan:moc(ca)m
• Chamicuro:s̈hos̈hochi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Niêm dịch(zh)(niányè)

• Czech:sliz(cs)m
• Danish:slim(da)corn
• Dutch:slijm(nl)m
• Esperanto:muko(eo)
• Estonian:lima(et)
• Faroese:slímn
• Finnish:lima(fi)
• French:mucus(fr)m,mucosité(fr)f
• Galician:moco,limo(gl)(of animals)
• Gamilaraay:mirril
• Georgian:ლორწო(lorc̣o)
• German:Schleim(de)m
• Greek:βλέννα(el)f(vlénna)

  Ancient:μύξαf(múxa),βλένναf(blénna)

• Hebrew:רִיר(he)m(rir)
• Hindi:नाक(hi)f(nāk)
• Hungarian:nyálka(hu)
• Icelandic:slím(is)n
• Ido:muko(io)
• Ilocano:muteg
• Italian:muco(it)m
• Japanese:Niêm dịch(ja)(ねんえき, nen'eki)
• Kankanaey:muteg
• Kazakh:жалқық(jalqyq),шырыш(şyryş)
• Khmer:សេម្ហៈ(km)(seemhaʼ),សេមហកលា(seemhaʼkaʼlaa),រំអិល(km)(rumʼəl)
• Korean:점액( niêm dịch )(jeomaek)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish:lînc(ku)f,lîncemadef

• Kyrgyz:былжыр(ky)(bıljır)
• Lao:ກະເທີ່(ka thœ̄),ເມືອກ(mư̄ak),ເສດ(sēt),ເສມ(sēm)
• Latin:mūcusm
• Latvian:gļotasm
• Lithuanian:gleivėsfpl
• Low German:Sliemm
• Macedonian:слузm(sluz)
• Malay:lendir
• Manx:carbeig
• Maori:hūpē,keha,kea
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:салс(mn)(sals)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:slim(no)n

  Nynorsk:slim(no)n

• Occitan:muc(oc)m
• Ottoman Turkish:سوموك(sümük)
• Pashto:مخاطm(moxāt)
• Persian:مخاط(fa)(moxât),خلم(fa)(xelm)
• Polish:śluz(pl)m,wydzielina(pl)f
• Portuguese:muco(pt)m
• Punjabi:ਸੀਂਢm(sīṇḍh)
• Quechua:ñuti,togro
• Romanian:muci,mucus(ro)
• Russian:слизь(ru)f(slizʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic:ronnm
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:слу̑зf

  Roman:slȗz(sh)f

• Slovak:slizm
• Slovene:sluzf
• Spanish:moco(es)m,mucosidad(es)f
• Swahili:kamasi(sw)
• Swedish:slem(sv)n
• Tagalog:sipon
• Tajik:луоб(luob)
• Tarifit:axrurm
• Thai:มูก(th)(mûuk),เมือก(th)(mʉ̂ʉak),เสมหะ(th)(sěem-hà)
• Turkish:mukus(tr),sümük(tr)
• Turkmen:nem
• Ukrainian:слиз(uk)f(slyz)
• Urdu:مخاط(muxāt)
• Uyghur:شىللىق(shilliq)
• Uzbek:shilliq(uz)
• Venetian:napa(vec)f
• Vietnamese:nước nhầy,niêm dịch(vi)(Niêm dịch),chất nhớt
• Volapük:slim(vo)
• Yoruba:ikun

See also

• booger
• snot
• phlegm

Anagrams

• CUSUM

French

Etymology

Learned borrowingfromLatinmūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/my.kys/

• Audio:

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Noun

mucusm(uncountable)

1. (physiology)mucus

Related terms

• mucilage
• mucosité
• muqueuse
• muqueux

Descendants

• →Turkish:mukus

Further reading

• “mucus”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Latin

Alternative forms

• muccus

Etymology

FromProto-Italic*moukos,fromProto-Indo-European*mew-k-(“slimy, slippery”).Cognates includeAncient Greekμύκης(múkēs,“mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈmuː.kus/,[ˈmuːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈmu.kus/,[ˈmuːkus]

Noun

mūcusm(genitivemūcī);second declension

1. mucus

Declension

Second-declensionnoun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūcus	mūcī
Genitive	mūcī	mūcōrum
Dative	mūcō	mūcīs
Accusative	mūcum	mūcōs
Ablative	mūcō	mūcīs
Vocative	mūce	mūcī

Derived terms

• mūcēdō
• muceō
• mūcidus
• mūcōsus
• mūculentus

Related terms

• mūcō

Descendants

• Aromanian:muc,mucã
• Catalan:moc
• Corsican:moccia
• English:mucus
• French:mucus
  • →Turkish:mukus
• Italian:moccio,muco
• Occitan:moc
• Old French:moche
• Portuguese:monco,muco
• Romanian:muc
• Sardinian:mucu,muccu
• Sicilian:muccu
• Spanish:moco
• Venetian:mocoło,moso

References

• “mucus”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mucus”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• mucusin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mucusinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Learned borrowingfromLatinmūcus.Doubletofmuc.

Noun

mucusn(uncountable)

1. (physiology)mucus

Declension

declension of mucus (singular only)

	singular
ngender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)mucus	mucusul
genitive/dative	(unui)mucus	mucusului
vocative	mucusule