muslo
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *mūsclus, from Latin mūsculus (“muscle”). Doublet of the borrowed músculo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuslo/ [ˈmus.lo]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -uslo
- Syllabification: mus‧lo
Noun
muslo m (plural muslos)
- thigh (upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee)
- Synonym: (Chile) tuto
Derived terms
- aductor corto del muslo
- aductor mayor del muslo
- aductor mediano del muslo
Related terms
- músculo
Further reading
- “muslo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014