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someone should make a cover of dear god by xtc in ecclesiastical latin

auriscalpium, -ii, ear-cleaner, Mart.

#made of bone or bronze. It was a rod with a curved tip or a small scoop for removing earwax #the name literally means pickaxe for ears. or smth like that #fun fact the same name now indicates mushrooms!#very enthusiast about this word #latin language #mart.

Literally little mouse???? Huh????? Fr????

Yup! The word mūsculus (whence English muscle and mussel) derives from mūs (equivalent both in meaning and etymology with English mouse) plus the diminutive suffix -culus.

It sounds pretty odd, but it’s not all that uncommon: it happens in Russian as well (мышца “muscle” <- мышь “mouse”), and in a similar way the Turkish word for “leg”, bacak, is originally a diminutive of bağa, meaning “frog”

Etymology is just silly like that :>

#i don’t know any other examples of body parts named after small animals but it probably happens in other languages as well #latin language #lingua latina #not translation #langblr #ask

auripigmentum, -i, arsenic sulphide, Plin.

#latin language #plin.

Formatio Verborum Latinorum / Formation of Latin Words

holoverus -a -um “quite real” [ὅλος “whole” + verus “real”] [holos + verus] ὅλος Latinized [holo- + vero-] stems [holovero-] new stem [holoverus] nominative singular