Muse

See also: muse, musé, musė, muše, and Muße

English

Three Musæ: Clio, Euterpe, and Thalia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo͞oz, IPA^(key): /mjuːz/
• Homophone: mews
• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

Muse (plural Muses)

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.

Usage notes

The plural Musae can also be found, though it is much rarer than Muses.

Hyponyms

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

Related terms

• museum
• music

Translations

one of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts

• Armenian: մուսա (hy) (musa)
• Breton: muzenn f muzezed pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繆斯／缪斯 (zh) (Miùsī)

• Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲇⲱⲛ (peridōn), ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ (mousa)
• 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: Μοῦσα f (Moûsa)

• Interlingua: musa
• Irish: Bé f
• Italian: Musa (it), musa (it) f
• Japanese: ムーサ (mūsa)
• Latin: Musa
• Luxembourgish: Muse
• Polish: muza (pl) f
• Portuguese: musa (pt) f
• Russian: му́за (ru) f (múza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: музa f

  Roman: muza (sh) f

• Slovene: muza (sl) f
• Spanish: Musa f
• Swahili: Muza
• Swedish: Musa
• Turkish: Müz

Anagrams

• Semu, emus, umes

German

Pronunciation

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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
• “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 (Moûsa).

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 2018-10-30.