Moselle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məʊˈzɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

Moselle

2. 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.
4. A department of Grand Est, France.

Derived terms

• Meurthe-et-Moselle
• Pagny-sur-Moselle

Translations

river

• Bavarian: Mosl
• Bulgarian: Мозе́л f (Mozél)
• Catalan: Mosel·la f
• Dutch: Moezel (nl) f
• French: Moselle (fr) f
• German: Mosel (de) f
• Italian: Mosella f
• Japanese: モーゼル川 (Mōzeru-gawa)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Mosel

• Luxembourgish: Musel (lb) f
• Marathi: मॉझेल f (mŏjhel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mosel

  Nynorsk: Mosel

• Occitan: Mosèla f
• Portuguese: Mosela m
• Spanish: Mosela f

department

• Bulgarian: Мозе́л m (Mozél)
• French: Moselle (fr) f
• Greek: Μοζέλ f or n (Mozél)
• Marathi: मॉझेल (mŏjhel)
• Occitan: Mosèla f

Noun

Moselle (countable and uncountable, plural Moselles)

1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
   • 1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 28:

     I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.

French

Etymology

From Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.zɛl/

• Audio (Paris):

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Proper noun

Moselle 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)
2. Moselle (a department of Grand Est, France)

Derived terms

• Meurthe-et-Moselle