musica

See also: música, mùsica, and mušica

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mūsica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmu.zi.ka]

• Audio (la musica)

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Noun

musica f (plural musiche)

1. music

Derived terms

Derived terms

• musica classica
• musicale
• musicante
• musicare
• musicassetta

• musichetta
• musicista
• musico
• musicofilo

• musicografo
• musicologia
• musicomania
• musicoterapia

Verb

musica

1. third-person singular present indicative of musicare
2. second-person singular imperative of musicare

Anagrams

• camusi

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Latin

Alternative forms

• mūsicē

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.si.ka/, [ˈmuː.sɪ.ka]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.si.ka/, [ˈmuː.si.ka]

Noun

mūsica f (genitive mūsicae); first declension

1. music (art form)

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mūsica	mūsicae
genitive	mūsicae	mūsicārum
dative	mūsicae	mūsicīs
accusative	mūsicam	mūsicās
ablative	mūsicā	mūsicīs
vocative	mūsica	mūsicae

Related terms

• mūsicātus
• mūsicus

Descendants

• Catalan: música
• English: music
• French: musique
• Friulian: musiche

• Galician: música
• Italian: musica
• Occitan: musica, musico
• Portuguese: música

• Romanian: muzică
• Romansch: musica
• Spanish: música
• Venetian: mùxega

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mūsicus (“musical, of or pertaining to music”).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.si.ka/, [ˈmuː.sɪ.ka]

Adjective

mūsica

1. nominative feminine singular of mūsicus
2. nominative neuter plural of mūsicus
3. accusative neuter plural of mūsicus
4. vocative feminine singular of mūsicus
5. vocative neuter plural of mūsicus

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.si.kaː/, [ˈmuː.sɪ.kaː]

Adjective

mūsicā

1. ablative feminine singular of mūsicus

References

• musica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• musica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “musica”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “musica” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
    
• musica in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• musica in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• musico (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Latin mūsica.

Noun

musica f (plural musicas)

1. music

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin mūsica.

Noun

musica f

1. music