musculature

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French musculature

Noun

musculature (countable and uncountable, plural musculatures)

The collection of all muscles in a single body or in a single organ.
The structural configuration of muscle in a body or organ.

Translations

collection of muscles

Albanian: muskulaturë (sq) f
Catalan: musculatura (ca) f
Czech: svalstvo n
French: musculature (fr) f
German: Muskulatur (de) f
Hungarian: izomzat (hu)
Italian: muscolatura (it) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: muskulatur m

Nynorsk: muskulatur m

Polish: muskulatura (pl) f
Portuguese: musculatura f
Romanian: musculatură (ro) f
Russian: мускулату́ра (ru) f (muskulatúra)
Spanish: musculatura (es) f

French

Etymology

Learned formation from the root of Latin musculus (whence French muscle) + -ature.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mys.ky.la.tyʁ/
Audio (file)

Noun

musculature f (plural musculatures)

musculature

Further reading

“musculature” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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