The story
- Latin · derived frommūcus
- Late Latin · borrowed frommūcōsus
- English todaymucous
Naturalized from Late Latin mūcōsus, from Latin mūcus. By surface analysis, muc(us) + -ous = muco- + -ous.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.