Muse

See also: Appendix:Variations of "muse"

English

Three Musæ: Clio, Euterpe, and Thalia

Etymology 1

From Middle English Muse, from Latin Musa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo͞oz, IPA^(key): /mjuːz/

  • Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: mews
• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

Muse (plural Muses or (rare) Musae)

1. One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
   • 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso:

     And hears the Muſes in a ring,
     Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.

Hyponyms

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

Derived terms

• musal, Musal

Related terms

• museum
• music

Translations

one of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts

• Armenian: մուսա (hy) (musa)
• Belarusian: му́за f (múza)
• Breton: muzenn f muzezed pl
• Bulgarian: му́за (bg) f (múza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繆斯 / 缪斯 (zh) (Miùsī)

• Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲇⲱⲛ (peridōn), ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ (mousa)
• Czech: múza f
• Danish: Muse
• Dutch: muse (nl), Nadenken
• Esperanto: Muzo
• Finnish: muusa (fi)
• French: muse (fr) f, Muse (fr) f
• Georgian: მუზი (muzi)
• German: Muse (de) f
• Greek: μούσα (el) f (moúsa)

  Ancient Greek: Μοῦσα f (Moûsa)

• Interlingua: musa
• Irish: Bé f
• Italian: Musa (it), musa (it) f
• Japanese: ムーサ (Mūsa)
• Korean: 무사 (ko) (Musa)
• Latin: Mūsa f, Camēna f
• Luxembourgish: Muse
• Macedonian: муза f (muza)
• Polish: muza (pl) f
• Portuguese: musa (pt) f
• Russian: му́за (ru) f (múza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: му́за f

  Latin: múza (sh) f

• Slovak: múza f
• Slovene: muza (sl) f
• Spanish: Musa f
• Swahili: Muza
• Swedish: Musa
• Thai: มิวส์
• Turkish: Müz
• Ukrainian: му́за f (múza)

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Shan မူႇၸေႊ (mùu tse᷈e)bor.

English Muse

Borrowed from Shan မူႇၸေႊ (mùu tse᷈e).

Proper noun

Muse

1. A city in Shan State, Myanmar.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Muse

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Glades County, Florida.
   2. An unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, named after Rev. Joseph Muse.

Anagrams

• Semu, emus, umes

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Muse f (genitive Muse, plural Musen)

1. A Muse (deity).
2. A source of inspiration.

Declension

Declension of Muse [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Muse	die	Musen
genitive	einer	der	Muse	der	Musen
dative	einer	der	Muse	den	Musen
accusative	eine	die	Muse	die	Musen

Further reading

• “Muse”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Muse” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Muse” in Duden online
• Muse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Middle English

Alternative forms

• muse, mwse

Etymology

From Latin Mūsa, either directly or from Old French muse. Ultimately from Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiu̯z(ə)/

Noun

Muse (plural Muses)

1. (Greek mythology) A Muse
2. A source of inspiration for artists.
3. (rare) A kind of art.

Related terms

• musike

Descendants

• English: Muse, muse
• Scots: Muse, muse

References

• “Mūse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 October 2018.