musa

musa f (plural muses)

1. muse (source of inspiration)

• muséu
• música

• (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”)

Shortening of musiikki (“music”).

• Hyphenation: mu‧sa
• Rhymes: -usɑ
• IPA^(key): [ˈmusɑ]

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

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/, [ˈmuːz̪ä]
• Stress: mùsa
• Hyphenation: mu‧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. (figuratively)
   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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.sa/

mūsa f (genitive mūsae); first declension

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

First declension.

• Mūsa

• 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

From Arabic مَوْزَة‎ (mawza).

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

musa f (genitive musae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) banana

First declension.

• Translingual: Musa

• musen

musa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of mus

musa f

1. definite singular of mus

From Proto-Nguni *úmusá.

musa^? class 3

1. kindness

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.zɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.za/, /ˈmu.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: mu‧sa

musa f (plural musas)

1. Muse
2. muse (a source of inspiration)
3. A poet's creative and poetic genius.

• (source of inspiration): inspiração

• música
• museu

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmusa/

musa f (plural musas)

1. Muse
2. muse (a source of inspiration)
3. A poet's creative and poetic genius.
4. (literary) poetry

• (source of inspiration): inspiración, numen
• (poetry): poesía

• música
• museo

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

musa (to one person, to multiple people musani)

1. (with infinitive) don't

• 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)”