Mosa

See also: mosa

Catalan

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Mosa m

1. Meuse

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Italian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Mosa ?

1. The river Meuse

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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”).

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

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔːs̬ä]
• (ablative case): (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.saː/, [ˈmɔs̠äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔːs̬ä]

Proper noun

Mosa m sg (genitive Mosae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

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

Descendants

• Catalan: Mosa
• French: Meuse
  • English: Meuse
  • Luxembourgish: Meuse
  • Swedish: Meuse

• 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.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Mosa m

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

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Mosa.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mosa m

1. the river Meuse

Related terms

• moseno