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• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /muːsˈker.da/,[muːs̠ˈkɛrd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /muʃˈʃer.da/,[muʃˈʃɛrd̪ä]

mūscerda f (genitivemūscerdae);first declension

1. mouse-dropping
   • c. 77CE – 79CE,Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia29.106:

     Alopecias replet fimi pecudum cinis cum oleo cyprio et melle, item ungularum muli vel mulae ex oleo myrteo, praeterea, ut Varro noster tradit, murinum fimum, quod illemuscerdas appellat, aut muscarum capita recentia prius folio ficulneo asperatas. alii sanguine muscarum utuntur, alii X diebus cinerem earum inlinunt cum cinere chartae vel ncuum ita, ut sit tertia portio emuscis; alii lacte mulierum cum brassica cinerem muscarum subigunt, quidam melle tantum. mulu animal minus docile existimatur minorisve intellectus; eo mirabilius est Olympiae sacro certamine nubes earum immolato tauro deo, quem Myioden vocant, extra territorium id abire.

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2. (Can weverify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)(in theplural)nonsense,bullshit

First-declension noun.

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

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