Mosa

See also: mosa

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Proper noun

Mosa m

  1. Meuse

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Proper noun

Mosa ?

  1. The river Meuse

Latin

Etymology

From Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā, of uncertain origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mā- (to stupefy) in the sense of the river's tortuousness, cognate with Proto-Germanic *masōną (to confound, be weary, dream) (modern English maze), Welsh mydu (to vault, arch), Old Norse meis (curvatura).[1]

Or, Albrecht Greule writes that it could perhaps be from *meh₂d-, whence Latin madeō (I am wet) and Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, full).[2]

Compare also Proto-Germanic *Masō (Dutch Maas), presumably from the same source.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔ.sa]
  • (ablative case): (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.saː/, [ˈmɔ.saː]

Proper noun

Mosa m (genitive Mosae); first declension

  1. Meuse or Maas (a river in what was Belgic Gaul)

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular
Nominative Mosa
Genitive Mosae
Dative Mosae
Accusative Mosam
Ablative Mosā
Vocative Mosa

Descendants

  • Italian: Mosa
  • Portuguese: Mosa
  • Spanish: Mosa
  • Walloon: Moûze

References

  • Mosa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Mosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Ferguson, Robert (1862): The River-names of Europe, p. 142
  2. Albrecht Greule, Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen (2014)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Mosa m

  1. Meuse (a river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mosa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmo.sa]
  • Rhymes: -osa

Proper noun

Mosa m

  1. the river Meuse
  • moseno
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