mustacium

Latin

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive from Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax). Attested in the plural form mustācia in a gloss from the seventh century CE.[1]

Noun

mustācium n (genitive mustāciī or mustācī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. moustache

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mustācium mustācia
Genitive mustāciī
mustācī1		 mustāciōrum
Dative mustāciō mustāciīs
Accusative mustācium mustācia
Ablative mustāciō mustāciīs
Vocative mustācium mustācia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance: f
    • Aromanian: mustatsã, mustacã, mustatse
    • Romanian: mustață, musteață
  • Italo-Romance: m
    • Italian: mostaccio (see there for further descendants)
    • Neapolitan: mustaccio
      • → French: moustache (see there for further descendants)
    • Sicilian: mustazzu
  • North Italian: m
    • Emilian: mostaz
    • Lombard: mostasc
      Borgomanero: mostasciu
    • Piedmontese: mostass
    • Venetian: mustacchio

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mystax”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 319
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