muci-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g.
mucicarmine n.Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mūcus , -i- connective.
Etymology: < classical Latin mūcus mucus n. + -i- connective, perhaps after mucilage n. Compare muco- comb. form.Attested earliest in an isolated formation in the 17th cent. (see muciduct n.), and subsequently in English formations from the first half of the nineteenth cent. (see e.g. muciform adj., muciparous adj.).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).