different between musca vs calyptra

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?

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kalúptra, “covering or veiling”).

Noun

calyptra (plural calyptras or calyptrae)

1. (botany) In bryophytes, a thin, hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.
2. (botany) any cap-like covering of a flower or fruit, such as the operculum over the unopened buds of Eucalyptus flowers
3. (botany) Any of various coverings at the tips of structures, in the terminology of various authors; for example rootcaps and the apical cells of trichomes.
4. (entomology) In flies such as the housefly, Musca, in the taxonomic order Diptera, zoological section Schizophora, subsection Calyptrata, the calyptra is a membranous rearward extension of the forewing; it covers the haltere.

Translations

References

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (kalúptr?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka?lyp.tra/, [kä?l?pt??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?lip.tra/, [k??lipt???]

Noun

calyptra f (genitive calyptrae); first declension

1. A kind of veil used by women

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

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