different between southern vs musca

English

Etymology

From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English s?þerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?nijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?un-, *sh?wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh?wl? (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian s?thern, s?dern (“southern”), Middle Low German s?dern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”). More at south.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?ð?n/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?ð?n/, enPR: s?th??rn
• (rare, parts of Ontario and Canadian prairies) IPA^(key): /?sa?ð?n/, enPR: south??rn

Adjective

southern (comparative more southern, superlative most southern)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
2. Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.

3. Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

Synonyms

• southerly
• austral
• meridional

Antonyms

• northern
• boreal
• septentrional

Derived terms

• southern cassowary

Translations

Noun

southern (plural southerns)

1. Synonym of southerner

See also

• eastern
• western
• oriental
• occidental

Anagrams

• turnshoe

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?