different between apus vs musca

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??pu?]
• Hyphenation: apus
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

apa (“father”) +? -us (diminutive suffix)

Noun

apus

1. dad, daddy

Declension

Etymology 2

apu (“father”) +? -s (“-like, -related”, adjective-forming suffix)

Adjective

apus (comparative apusabb, superlative legapusabb)

1. typical or characteristic of dad/daddy

Declension

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ápous, “footless”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.pu?s/, [?äpu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.pus/, [???pus]

Noun

ap?s m (genitive apodis); third declension

1. A martlet, swallow; a kind of bird believed to have no feet.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• apus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

apus

1. first-person singular preterite of apor

Romanian

Etymology

From the past participle of the verb apune (“to fade, set”), from Latin apponere. Was the traditional word for "west", but today vest is used as the standard term. Compare also the descendants of Latin ponens in the Western Romance languages, which developed the meaning of "west".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?pus/

Adjective

apus m or n (feminine singular apus?, masculine plural apu?i, feminine and neuter plural apuse)

1. (of celestial bodies) set
2. bygone, dead, vanished

Declension

Noun

apus n (plural apusuri)

1. (now uncommon) west
2. sunset
3. (figuratively) decline

Declension

Synonyms

• (west): vest (standard), occident
• (sunset): asfin?it

Antonyms

• (west): r?s?rit (also somewhat uncommon), est (standard), orient

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Verb

apus

1. past participle of apune

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

See also Sanskrit ??? (ma?áka), Old Church Slavonic ????? (muxa), and the Ancient Greek ???? (muîa, “a fly”) of which ?????? (mu?sk?) may be a diminutive form. Confer the German Mücke (“midge”) and English midge, midget.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mus.ka/, [?m?s?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mus.ka/, [?musk?]

Noun

musca f (genitive muscae); first declension

1. a fly (insect)

   Puer, abige muscas.

   Repel those flies, boy.

2. (transferred meaning) an inquisitive or prying people

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• musc?rium
• musc?rius

Descendants

References

• musca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• musca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• musca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• musca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• musca in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• musca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Noun

musca

1. Alternative form of muske

Romanian

Noun

musca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of musc?