musa

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

musa f (plural muses)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

• muséu
• música

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.zə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.za/

musa f (plural muses)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

• museu
• música

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

musa

1. (anatomy) breast

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

1. murine

• ronĝula (“rodential”)

• muso (“mouse”)

Clipping of musiikki (“music”) +‎ -sa

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

musa

1. (colloquial) music

• Samu, masu, suma, usma

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

musa

1. third-person singular past historic of muser

• muas, SAMU

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

musa f (plural musas)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

• museo
• música

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

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

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

musa f (plural muse)

1. (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 […]

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

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

musa f (plural muse)

1. the Musa taxonomic genus

• suma

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.sa/, [ˈmuːs̠ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.sa/, [ˈmuːs̬ä]

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

mūsa f (genitive mūsae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• Mūsa

• 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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

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 [radish], although they exceed these a lot in both length and width.

• ariena (classical)

• Translingual: Musa
• Sicilian: musa

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

• musen m sg

musa f sg

1. definite feminine singular of mus

musa f sg

1. definite feminine singular of mus

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

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musa f (plural musas)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

From Proto-Nguni *úmusá.

musa^? class 3

1. kindness

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

• Hyphenation: mu‧sa

musa f (plural musas)

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

   Synonym: inspiração

3. a poet's creative and poetic genius

• música
• museu

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

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

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

• música
• museo

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

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

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musa (to one person, to multiple people musani)

1. (with infinitive) don't

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• IPA^(key): /mʱúːsa/

musa (to one person, to multiple people musani)

1. (with infinitive) don't

   Synonym: kahle

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