mucosus

Latin

Etymology

From mūcus +‎ -ōsus.

Adjective

mūcōsus (feminine mūcōsa, neuter mūcōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) slimy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mūcōsus	mūcōsa	mūcōsum		mūcōsī	mūcōsae	mūcōsa
genitive	mūcōsī	mūcōsae	mūcōsī		mūcōsōrum	mūcōsārum	mūcōsōrum
dative	mūcōsō	mūcōsae	mūcōsō		mūcōsīs
accusative	mūcōsum	mūcōsam	mūcōsum		mūcōsōs	mūcōsās	mūcōsa
ablative	mūcōsō	mūcōsā	mūcōsō		mūcōsīs
vocative	mūcōse	mūcōsa	mūcōsum		mūcōsī	mūcōsae	mūcōsa

Descendants

• Aromanian: mucos
• Catalan: mocós
• → Catalan: mucós
• → English: mucous
• → French: muqueux
• → Italian: mucoso
• Occitan: mocós
• Portuguese: moncoso
• → Portuguese: mucoso
• Romanian: mucos
• Sardinian: muccosu
• Sicilian: muccusu
• Spanish: mocoso
• → Spanish: mucoso

References

• “mucosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mucosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.