musica

See also: música, mùsica, and mušica

Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.zi.ka/

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Noun

musica f (plural musiche)

1. music

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• mūsicē

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mūsica f (genitive mūsicae); first declension

1. music (art form)

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

• Belarusian: му́зыка (múzyka)
• Catalan: música
• Czech: muzika
• Danish: musik
• Dutch: muziek
• English: music
• Estonian: muusika
• Finnish: musiikki
• French: musique
• Friulian: musiche
• Galician: música
• German: Musik
• Georgian: მუსიკა (musiḳa)
• Hebrew: מוּזִיקָה‎ (múzika)
• Hunsrik: Mussik
• Indonesian: musik
• Italian: musica
• Macedonian: музика (muzika)
• Norwegian: musikk
• Occitan: musica, musico
• Polish: muzyka
• Portuguese: música
• Romanian: muzică
• Romansch: musica
• Russian: му́зыка (múzyka)
• Serbo-Croatian: му̀зика
• Spanish: murga, música
• Swedish: musik
• Tagalog: musika
• Turkish: müzik
• Ukrainian: му́зика (múzyka)
• Venetian: mùxega

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective 1

mūsica

1. inflection of mūsicus (“musical, of or pertaining to music”):
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective 2

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
• musica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• musica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 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

Borrowed from Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”).

Noun

musica f (plural musicas)

1. music

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Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”).

Noun

musica f

1. music

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Spanish

Verb

musica

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of musicar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of musicar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of musicar.