musa
Catalan
Further reading
- “musa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Esperanto
Finnish
Etymology
Shortening of musiikki (“music”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mu‧sa
- Rhymes: -usɑ
- IPA(key): [ˈmusɑ]
Declension
Inflection 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 musainrare | |
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 | |
instructive | — | musin | |
abessive | musatta | musitta | |
comitative | — | musineen |
French
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmu.za/, [ˈmuːz̪ä]
- Stress: mùsa
- Hyphenation: mu‧sa
Noun
musa f (plural muse)
- (Greek mythology, usually capitalized) Muse
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto II, lines 7–9, page 21:
- 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 […]
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- (figuratively)
- poetic inspiration
- (by extension) poetry
- poet
Etymology 2
From Late Latin musa, from Arabic مَوْزَة (mawza).
Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek μοῦσα (moûsa). Akin to mēns (“mind, reason”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.sa/
Inflection
First declension.
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
References
- musa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/, [ˈmʊ.sa]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/, [ˈmuː.sa]
Norwegian Nynorsk
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Pronunciation
Synonyms
- (source of inspiration): inspiração
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmusa/
Noun
musa f (plural musas)
Synonyms
- (source of inspiration): inspiración, numen
- (poetry): poesía
References
- “musa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Zulu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʱúːsa/
References
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “musa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “musa (6-3.9)”
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