Mosella

See also: Mosel·la

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Mosella.

Proper noun

Mosella f

1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)

Latin

Alternative forms

• Mos. (abbreviation)

Etymology

A diminutive form of Mosa, meaning "little Meuse".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔˈsɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈs̬ɛl.la]

Proper noun

Mosella m sg or f sg (genitive Mosellae); first declension

1. a major river in modern France, Luxembourg and Germany; modern Moselle

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Mosella
genitive	Mosellae
dative	Mosellae
accusative	Mosellam
ablative	Mosellā
vocative	Mosella
locative	Mosellae

Synonyms

• (River Moselle): Mosula

Derived terms

• Mosellēus
• Mosellicus

Descendants

• Catalan: Mosel·la
• French: Moselle
  • English: Moselle
• Old High German: Muosela
  • Luxembourgish: Musel
  • Dutch: Moezel
• Italian: Mosella
• Portuguese: Mosella
• Spanish: Mosela

References

• “Mŏsella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mŏsella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 997/1.
• “Mosella” on page 1,137/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)