muscle. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Today the definition of a

muscle is literally a piece of flesh or meat that connects one bone to another.

Okay. Let's continue. The origin of the word muscle goes all the way back to

Latin. The Latin word was musculus.. Okay. And at that time it literally meant a

small mouse. Okay. In former times, some people believed if one flexes his or

her muscles, you know, like in our modern times when we try to ... we sometimes also

say to make a muscle. You know, try to make the muscle look big. To make a

muscle. That's to flex their muscles or you can flex other muscles. You see the

bodybuilders sometimes you know , bend over and try to make their muscles stand

up. That means to flex ones muscles. All right. So if one flexes his or her

muscles, especially the biceps. Now this of course here. This is your bicep,

especially the biceps. It appeared to look like a mouse under a cloth or

carpet. Yeah.So this is really strange it's weird that that the word muscle

actually came from mouse. Because usually we think ... we don't think of mice as very

strong. We think of them as kind of weak. You know, if anything maybe a rat would

be stronger. But, but not , not a mouse, but that's really where the word muscle came

from. So why did they think that. It's kind of weird. I don't know if I can show

you very well because I don't actually have the best muscles. But what they

meant by that is if you do it slowly with your bicep , you can see the muscle

moving here. And they thought that that actually looked like a mouse. The

movement of a mouse under like a cloth or under, under something. So this is

where the word muscle actually comes from. Okay. Let's continue. All right. So

in Latin "mus" was mouse. Just must by itself

and the word musculus, okay was the diminutive form meaning a small mouse. The

diminutive form you know, sometimes we we add like a word ending to make it

seem smaller like "ette" Sometimes in English which I think we get from French

can mean that you know something is smaller or something like that. So it's a

diminutive form. Okay. Here. Yes so this ended up be passed down from middle

French to English. And then you know, it eventually came what today we call

muscle. So it's very, very ironic. That muscle, the word muscle actually comes

from mouse. It's, it's more ironic when I think, I think it told you a long time

ago when I was a little kid there used to be a cartoon called Mighty Mouse. You

know, it was a bit of a joke he was like a Superman Mouse. But maybe, maybe there's

really more of a connection there then it was previously thought. All right.

Let's continue here. They say in Greece there was also a similar word I think

it'd be pronounced 'Mys" that meant both mouse and muscle in Greek. So both the

Greeks and the Romans actually probably thought this in former times. And we just

have one example of the word muscle today. You know, that's a common word

everybody should know this. Body builders likes to flex their muscles. So remember,

we also say to make a muscle. Okay . Anyway I hope you got it. I hope you found it to

be very informative and interesting. Thanks for your time. Bye-bye.