mustus

1. conditional of mustar

Of unclear origin.

Traditionally connected to muscus (“moss”); if so, then from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”), and cognate with English moss, Old High German mos (“moss”) (German Moos), Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus (“moss”).

De Vaan shows some skepticism of the above etymology, and provides an alternative theoretical derivation from Proto-Indo-European *mud-s-tos, from *mewd- (“to be cheerful, become happy”),^[1] whence Sanskrit मुद् (mud, “to rejoice”), Lithuanian mudrùs (“nimble, alert”).^[2] However, he notes that this derivation is semantically bold.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmʊs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmus.tus]

mustus (feminine musta, neuter mustum); first/second-declension adjective

1. fresh, young
2. unfermented (wine)

First/second-declension adjective.

• mustum

• “mustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mustus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.