musée

See also: Musée and musee

French

Etymology

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ze/

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• Homophone: Musée

Noun

musée m (plural musées)

1. museum (a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value)

   Tous les dimanches, nous allons au musée.

   We go to the museum every Sunday.

   Nous irons au musée dimanche la semaine prochaine.

   We will go to the museum on Sunday next week.

Derived terms

• muséal
• musée imaginaire

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: mize
• → Chadian Arabic: موزي (mūzē)
• → Luxembourgish: Musée
• → Ottoman Turkish: موزه (müze), ⇒ موزه‌خانه (müzehane)
  • Turkish: müze
  • → Uzbek: muzaxona
• → Persian: موزه (muze)

Further reading

• “musée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• émeus, émues, eûmes

Norman

Etymology

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “shrine of the Muses”), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”)).

Noun

musée m (plural musées)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) museum