musa
Asturian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Noun
editmusa f (plural muses)
- muse (source of inspiration)
Related terms
editCatalan
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmusa f (plural muses)
- muse (source of inspiration)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “musa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editmusa
- inflection of musar:
Ese
editNoun
editmusa
Esperanto
editAdjective
editmusa (accusative singular musan, plural musaj, accusative plural musajn)
Hypernyms
editRelated terms
editFinnish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editClipping of musiikki (“music”) + -sa.
Noun
editmusa (informal)
Declension
editInflection of musa (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | musa | musat | |
genitive | musan | musien | |
partitive | musaa | musia | |
illative | musaan | musiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | musa | musat | |
accusative | nom. | musa | musat |
gen. | musan | ||
genitive | musan | musien musain rare | |
partitive | musaa | musia | |
inessive | musassa | musissa | |
elative | musasta | musista | |
illative | musaan | musiin | |
adessive | musalla | musilla | |
ablative | musalta | musilta | |
allative | musalle | musille | |
essive | musana | musina | |
translative | musaksi | musiksi | |
abessive | musatta | musitta | |
instructive | — | musin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “musa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-09-18
Etymology 2
editPerhaps from Swedish mos (“mash”) in the sense of "gravel", originally to mean "(state of being) broken". The sense "stone, rock" is found both in dialects and Helsinki slang.
Noun
editmusa
- (colloquial, idiomatic) (state of being) broken
- (dialectal or dated Helsinki slang) rock, stone
- (dialectal) bump
Declension
editInflection of musa (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | musa | musat | |
genitive | musan | musien | |
partitive | musaa | musia | |
illative | musaan | musiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | musa | musat | |
accusative | nom. | musa | musat |
gen. | musan | ||
genitive | musan | musien musain rare | |
partitive | musaa | musia | |
inessive | musassa | musissa | |
elative | musasta | musista | |
illative | musaan | musiin | |
adessive | musalla | musilla | |
ablative | musalta | musilta | |
allative | musalle | musille | |
essive | musana | musina | |
translative | musaksi | musiksi | |
abessive | musatta | musitta | |
instructive | — | musin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
edit- musari (“rock, stone”, Helsinki slang)
References
edit- Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSES 2021"), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN
- “musa”, in Suomen murteiden sanakirja [Dictionary of Finnish Dialects][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2022, →ISSN.
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /my.za/
- Homophones: musas, musât
Verb
editmusa
- third-person singular past historic of muser
Anagrams
editGalician
editEtymology
editFrom Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmusa f (plural musas)
- muse (source of inspiration)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “musa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin mūsa/Mūsa, from Ancient Greek μοῦσα (moûsa)/Μοῦσα (Moûsa).
Noun
editmusa f (plural muse)
- (Greek mythology, usually capitalized) Muse
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto II, page 21, lines 7–9:
- O muse, o alto ingegno, or m'aiutate; ¶ o mente che scrivesti ciò ch'io vidi, ¶ qui si parrà la tua nobilitate. […]
- O Muses, O high genius, now assist me! ¶ O memory, that didst write down what I saw, ¶ here thy nobility shall be manifest!
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered][4], Erasmo Viotti, Canto I, page 2:
- O Muſa, tu, che di caduchi allori ¶ non circondi la fronte in Elicona ¶ ma sù nel cielo infra beati chori ¶ hai di ſtelle immortali aurea corona […]
- O Muse, you who don't encircle your head with caducous laurel in Helicon, but instead, among blessed choirs up in the sky, have a golden crown of immortal stars […]
- 1822, Ippolito Pindemonte, transl., Odissea [Odyssey][5], translation of Ὀδύσσεια (Odýsseia) by Homer, Book I, page 1:
- Musa, quell’uom di moltiforme ingegno ¶ dimmi, che molto errò, poich’ebbe a terra ¶ gittate d’Iliòn le sacre torri; […]
- O Muse, tell me about that man of multiform ingenuity, that much wandered after bringing down the sacred towers of Troy […]
- (figurative)
- poetic inspiration
- (by extension) poetry
- poet
Etymology 2
editFrom Late Latin musa, from Arabic مَوْزَة (mawza).
Noun
editmusa f (plural muse)
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.sa/, [ˈmuːs̠ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/, [ˈmuːs̬ä]
Etymology 1
editFrom Ancient Greek μοῦσα (moûsa). Akin to mēns (“mind, reason”).
Noun
editmūsa f (genitive mūsae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | mūsa | mūsae |
Genitive | mūsae | mūsārum |
Dative | mūsae | mūsīs |
Accusative | mūsam | mūsās |
Ablative | mūsā | mūsīs |
Vocative | mūsa | mūsae |
Related terms
editReferences
edit- musa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “musa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “musa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Etymology 2
editFrom Arabic مَوْزَة (mawza), singulative of مَوْز (mawz). Attested in Latin since the 14th century.
Noun
editmūsa f (genitive mūsae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) banana
- 14th century, Symon Semeonis, Itinerarium Symonis Semeonis ab Hybernia ad Terram Sanctam 40:
- Non enim sunt arboris poma, sed cujusdam herbe in altum crescentis ad modum arboris, que musa appellatur; cujus folia in figura et colore foliis cujusdam herbe, que anglice dicitur radigche, multumque assimilantur, quamvis in longitudine et latitudine illa multum excedant.
- They're not fruit from a tree, but from a plant that grows up in the manner of the trees, called the musa. In terms of shape and colour, its leaves resemble very much those of a plant that the English call radigche [radish], although they exceed these a lot in both length and width.
- Non enim sunt arboris poma, sed cujusdam herbe in altum crescentis ad modum arboris, que musa appellatur; cujus folia in figura et colore foliis cujusdam herbe, que anglice dicitur radigche, multumque assimilantur, quamvis in longitudine et latitudine illa multum excedant.
Synonyms
edit- ariēna (classical)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- "musa". Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
Norwegian Bokmål
editAlternative forms
edit- musen m sg
Noun
editmusa f sg
Norwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editmusa f sg
Occitan
editEtymology
editFrom Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmusa f (plural musas)
- muse (source of inspiration)
Old English
editNoun
editmūsa
Phuthi
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Nguni *úmusá.
Noun
editmusa? class 3
Inflection
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: mu‧sa
Noun
editmusa f (plural musas)
- Muse
- muse (a source of inspiration)
- Synonym: inspiração
- a poet's creative and poetic genius
Related terms
editSpanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).
Noun
editmusa f (plural musas)
- Muse
- muse (a source of inspiration)
- Synonyms: inspiración, numen
- a poet's creative and poetic genius
- (literary) poetry
- Synonym: poesía
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editmusa
- only used in me musa, first-person singular present subjunctive of musirse
- only used in se musa, third-person singular present subjunctive of musirse
- only used in se ... musa, syntactic variant of músase, third-person singular imperative of musirse
Further reading
edit- “musa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Xhosa
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Interjection
editmusa (to one person, to multiple people musani)
- (with infinitive) don't
Zulu
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editmusa (to one person, to multiple people musani)
References
edit- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “musa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “musa (6-3.9)”
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