different between musca vs chamaeleon

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

Noun

chamaeleon (plural chamaeleons)

1. Alternative spelling of chameleon

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (khamailé?n), from ????? (khamaí, “on the earth, on the ground”) + ???? (lé?n, “lion”); ultimately a calque from Akkadian ???????????????? (n?šu ša qaqqari, “chameleon, reptile”, literally “lion of the ground", "predator that crawls upon the ground”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?mae?.le.o?n/, [k?ä?mäe???eo?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?me.le.on/, [k??m??l??n]

Noun

chamaele?n m (genitive chamaele?nis or chamaele?ntis); third declension

1. chameleon (a kind of lizard)
2. (sometimes feminine) carline thistle

Declension

Third-declension noun (two different stems).

References

• chamaeleon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chamaeleon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• chamaeleon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Critical and Philological Notes: Tablet XI, Note 314 in Andrew R. George (2003) The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, Volume II, Oxford University Press, pages 896-897
• n?šu(m) in Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (1976) A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 251