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Where does “mucido” come from?

mucido (Italian) comes from Latin mucidus, from Latin mūceō, from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Italic moukos, from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- — slimy, slippery; slip, slime.

mucido (Italian): musty, mouldy

Definitions

  1. musty, mouldy

Ancestry of “mucido”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmucidusmoldy, musty; sniveling
2Latinmūceō—
3Latinmūcus—
4Proto-Italicmoukos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-k-slimy, slippery; slip, slime
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