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musca

musca is the ellipsis of musca volitans.

Meaning of musca volitans

Noun

musca volitans (plural muscae volitantes)

  1. floater (threadlike speck in the visual field)

Proper noun (1) capitalized: MUSCA

MUSCA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Mexico-United States–Canada–Agreement.
    Synonyms:
    NAFTA 2.0, USMCA, CUSMA

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Musca

Musca

  1. An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.

Synonyms of musca

Forms of musca

pluralmuscae

Origin of musca

Calque of Spanish T-MEC (Tratado entre México y Estados Unidos y Canadá). Coined in analogy to USMCA and CUSMA.

Borrowed from Latin musca (“a fly”). Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, between 1595 and 1597. Doublet of mouche.

Words formed from musca

Phrases with musca

Questions about musca

What does musca mean?
Musca means an autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.
What is musca the ellipsis of?
Musca is the ellipsis of musca volitans.
What part of speech is musca?
Musca is a proper noun.

Words near musca in the dictionary

  1. musars
  2. Musas
  3. Musashino
  4. Musbach
  5. Musbachs
  6. musca
  7. musca volitans
  8. muscadel
  9. muscadels
  10. muscadet
  11. muscadets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: musca (page history and authors); MUSCA (page history and authors); Musca (page history and authors); musca volitans (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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