different between muscular vs lacertus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?s.kj?.l?/, /?m?s.kj?.l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?s.kj?.l?/, /?m?s.kju.l?/

Adjective

muscular (comparative more muscular, superlative most muscular)

1. Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.
2. Brawny, thewy, having strength.

   Synonyms: athletic, beefy, brawny, husky, lusty, muscled, muscly, powerful, strapping, strong
3. Having large, well-developed muscles.

   Synonyms: beefy, brawny, buff, husky, musclebound, muscled, muscly, powerfully built, swole, well-built

4. (figuratively) Robust, strong.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• myo-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mus.ku?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /mus.ku?la?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

muscular (masculine and feminine plural musculars)

1. muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)

Related terms

• múscul

Further reading

• “muscular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “muscular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “muscular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “muscular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Adjective

muscular m or f (plural musculares)

1. muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)

Related terms

• músculo

Further reading

• “muscular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Adjective

muscular (not comparable)

1. muscular

Related terms

• musculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu?.ku.?la?/
• Hyphenation: mus?cu?lar

Adjective

muscular m or f (plural musculares, comparable)

1. muscular (of or relating to muscles)

Related terms

• músculo

Romanian

Etymology

From French musculaire

Adjective

muscular m or n (feminine singular muscular?, masculine plural musculari, feminine and neuter plural musculare)

1. muscular

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musku?la?/, [mus.ku?la?]

Adjective

muscular (plural musculares)

1. muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)

Derived terms

• fortalecimiento muscular
• perimuscular
• tono muscular

Related terms

• músculo

Further reading

• “muscular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• lacert

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??s??.t?s/
• Hyphenation: la?cer?tus

Etymology

From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). For the semantics, compare muscle from m?sculus (“little mouse”), derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice.

Noun

lacertus (plural lacerti)

1. (anatomy) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.

References

• lacertus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la?ker.tus/, [??ä?k?rt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la?t??er.tus/, [l??t???rt?us]

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Noun

lacertus m (genitive lacert?, feminine lacerta); second declension

1. Alternative form of lacerta: a lizard.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly from lacerta (“lizard”), as musculus derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *l?k- (“leg, q.v.”)

Noun

lacertus m (genitive lacert?); second declension

1. (anatomy) The muscular part of the upper arm, including the shoulder, biceps, and triceps.
2. (anatomy) The arm.
3. (anatomy, Late Latin) A muscle.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

Further reading

• lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.