#latin language

[useless-latin]

auriscalpium, -ii, ear-cleaner, Mart.

[translatingpostsintolatin]

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 :>

[useless-latin]

auripigmentum, -i, arsenic sulphide, Plin.

[interretialia]

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

(Fons Imaginis.)

[interretialia]

vir

man

(Fons Imaginis.)

[translatingpostsintolatin]

How did you learn latin? I learned some basics in school but I don't know how to keep improving

I can redirect you to this post where someone asked a very similar question! :D

[unspeakabledigressions]

Did you know that the first water birth in history happened in ancient Rome?

When the baby girl emerged, the midwife looked down into the tub and shouted "Nata!"