mușat

Romanian

Etymology

From frumos, through the intermediate of a form frumușat, reduced through a childish-type deformation (cf. the similar reduction in (ma)mă-ta (“"your mother"”) and some other words or expressions). An alternative and unlikely explanation favors a derivation from Latin musteus (“young”). While it is now archaic or obsolete in Daco-Romanian, the Aromanian cognate mushat is the primary word for "beautiful" in that language. Mușat is also a surname and was the name of an early dynasty of rulers in Moldova (see House of Mușat on Wikipedia).

Adjective

mușat m or n (feminine singular mușată, masculine plural mușați, feminine and neuter plural mușate)

1. (archaic, obsolete, regional, Transylvania) beautiful, handsome, cute

   Synonyms: frumos, drăguț

Declension

Declension of mușat

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	mușat		mușată	mușați	mușate
	definite	mușatul		mușata	mușații	mușatele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	mușat		mușate	mușați	mușate
	definite	mușatului		mușatei	mușaților	mușatelor

Related terms

• frumusețe
• înfrumușa