musa

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Noun

musa f (plural muses)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

Related terms

• muséu
• música

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

musa f (plural muses)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

Related terms

• museu
• música

Further reading

• “musa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology 2

Verb

musa

1. inflection of musar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Ese

Noun

musa

1. (anatomy) breast

Esperanto

Adjective

musa (accusative singular musan, plural musaj, accusative plural musajn)

1. murine

Hypernyms

• ronĝula (“rodential”)

Related terms

• muso (“mouse”)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmusɑ/,
• Rhymes: -usɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧sa

Etymology 1

Clipping of musiikki (“music”) +‎ -sa.

Noun

musa (informal)

1. music

   Synonyms: see musiikki

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “musa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

Perhaps 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

musa

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) (state of being) broken

   Synonyms: see rikki

   Alternative forms: mosa, mäsä, musu

   olla musana ― to be broken

2. (dialectal or dated Helsinki slang) rock, stone

   Synonyms: see kivi

   Alternative form: mosa

3. (dialectal) bump

   Synonyms: see möykky

   Alternative form: mosa

Declension

Derived terms

• musari (“rock, stone”, Helsinki slang)

References

• Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang]‎ (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN
• “musa”, in Suomen murteiden sanakirja [Dictionary of Finnish Dialects]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2022, →ISSN.

Anagrams

• Samu, masu, suma, usma

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.za/
• Homophones: musas, musât

Verb

musa

1. third-person singular past historic of muser

Anagrams

• muas, SAMU

Galician

Etymology

From Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Noun

musa f (plural musas)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

Related terms

• museo
• música

Further reading

• “musa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.za/
• Rhymes: -uza
• Hyphenation: mù‧sa

Etymology 1

From Latin mūsa/Mūsa, from Ancient Greek μοῦσα (moûsa)/Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

Noun

musa f (plural muse)

1. (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]‎, 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]‎, 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

2. (figurative)
   1. poetic inspiration
   2. (by extension) poetry
   3. poet

Etymology 2

From Late Latin musa, from Arabic مَوْزَة (mawza).

Noun

musa f (plural muse)

1. the Musa taxonomic genus

Anagrams

• suma

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.sa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.sa/,

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μοῦσα (moûsa). Akin to mēns (“mind, reason”).

Noun

mūsa f (genitive mūsae); first declension

1. song, poem
2. (in the plural) studies, sciences

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• Mūsa

References

• 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

From Arabic مَوْزَة (mawza), singulative of مَوْز (mawz). Attested in Latin since the 14th century.

Noun

mūsa f (genitive mūsae); first declension

1. (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 , although they exceed these a lot in both length and width.

Synonyms

• ariēna (classical)

Descendants

• Translingual: Musa
• Sicilian: musa
• → English: Musa

References

• "musa". Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• musen m sg

Noun

musa f sg

1. definite feminine singular of mus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

musa f sg

1. definite feminine singular of mus

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Noun

musa f (plural musas)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *úmusá.

Noun

musa^? class 3

1. kindness

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

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Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mu‧sa

Noun

musa f (plural musas)

1. Muse
2. muse (a source of inspiration)

   Synonym: inspiração

3. a poet's creative and poetic genius

Related terms

• música
• museu

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmusa/
• Rhymes: -usa
• Syllabification: mu‧sa

Etymology 1

From Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

Noun

musa f (plural musas)

1. Muse
2. muse (a source of inspiration)

   Synonyms: inspiración, numen

3. a poet's creative and poetic genius
4. (literary) poetry

   Synonym: poesía

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

musa

1. only used in me musa, first-person singular present subjunctive of musirse
2. only used in se musa, third-person singular present subjunctive of musirse
3. only used in se ... musa, syntactic variant of músase, third-person singular imperative of musirse

Further reading

• “musa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Xhosa

Etymology

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Interjection

musa (to one person, to multiple people musani)

1. (with infinitive) don't

Zulu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʱúːsa/

Interjection

musa (to one person, to multiple people musani)

1. (with infinitive) don't

   Synonym: kahle

References

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “musa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “musa (6-3.9)”