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From the genus name.

mugil (plural mugils)

1. Any fish of the genus Mugil of mugilid mullets.

Probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.ɡil/, [ˈmuːɡɪɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.d͡ʒil/, [ˈmuːd͡ʒil]

mūgil m (genitive mūgilis); third declension

1. grey mullet

Third-declension noun.

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mūgō
  • Italian: muggine
  • Occitan: muge
    • → French: muge

• “mugil”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

mugil

1. Alternative form of magul.

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugarabul Body Parts.