Words that come from Latin “musca”

124 words across 41 languages descend from Latin musca — including mosquito, muscarinic, musketeer, Musca, antimuscarinic, musquet, muscarine, mosquitofish.

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English (23)

Italian (16)

French (12)

Translingual (8)

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