mišica

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîʃit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: mi‧ši‧ca

Noun

mȉšica f (Cyrillic spelling ми̏шица)

1. mouse (female)
2. upper arm

Declension

Declension of mišica

	singular	plural
nominative	mišica	mišice
genitive	mišice	mišica
dative	mišici	mišicama
accusative	mišicu	mišice
vocative	mišice	mišice
locative	mišici	mišicama
instrumental	mišicom	mišicama

Slovene

Etymology

Probably from mìš, as a calque of Latin mūsculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /míːʃit͡sa/

Noun

mȋšica f

1. (anatomy) muscle

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	míšica
gen. sing.	míšice
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	míšica	míšici	míšice
genitive (rodȋlnik)	míšice	míšic	míšic
dative (dajȃlnik)	míšici	míšicama	míšicam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	míšico	míšici	míšice
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	míšici	míšicah	míšicah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	míšico	míšicama	míšicami

Derived terms

• míšičen

Further reading

• “mišica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025