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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• Rhymes: -uzika

Noun

musica f (plural musiche)

1. music

Derived terms

• musica classica
• musicale
• musicante
• musicare
• musicassetta
• musichetta
• musicista
• musico
• musicofilo
• musicografo
• musicologia
• musicomania
• musicoterapia

 

Descendants

• → Maltese: mużika
• → Serbo-Croatian: muzika / музика

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.s̠ɪ.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

• Spanish: murga

Borrowings

• Aragonese: mosica
• Aromanian: muzicã
• Asturian: música
• Corsican: musica
• Extremaduran: música
• Franco-Provençal: musica
• Old French: musique, musike
  • French: musique (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: musique, mûsique
  • Picard: musique
  • Walloon: muzike
  • → Middle English: musike, musyke, musik, musyk, musice, music, musique
    • English: music (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: muisic
• Friulian: musiche
• Old High German: musica
  • Middle High German: music
    • Alemannic German: Musik
    • German: Musik
    • Hunsrik: Mussik
    • Kölsch: Musick
    • Mòcheno: musik
    • Vilamovian: müzik
    • Yiddish: מוזיק‎ (muzik)
• Italian: musica
  • → Maltese: mużika
  • → Serbo-Croatian: muzika / музика
• Ligurian: muxica
• Lombard: müsega
• Mirandese: música
• Neapolitan: museca
• Old Occitan: muzica
  • Old Catalan: musica
    • Catalan: música
  • Occitan: musica, musico
• Piedmontese: mùsica
• Old Portuguese: musica
  • Portuguese: música
    • Papiamentu: musika
    • → Tetum: muzika
  • Galician: música
• Romanian: muzică
• Romansch: musica
• Sardinian: musica, musiga
• Sicilian: mùsica
• Old Spanish: musica
  • Spanish: música (see there for further descendants)
  • Ladino: muzika / מוזיקה‎
• Venetian: mùxega (semi-learned)

Unsorted borrowings

• Abkhaz: амузика (āmuziḳā)
• Albanian: muzikë
• Amharic: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa)
• Arabic: مُوسِيقَى‎ (mūsīqā) (see there for further descendants)
• Banyumasan: musik
• Bavarian: Musi
• Bulgarian: музика (muzika)
• Chuvash: мусӑк (musăk)
• Cornish: musik
• Czech: muzika (see there for further descendants)
• Danish: musik
• Dutch Low Saxon: meziek
• Elfdalian: musik
• Estonian: muusika
• Faroese: musikkur
• North Frisian: musiik
• Saterland Frisian: Musik
• Georgian: მუსიკა (musiḳa)
• German Low German: Musik
• Hebrew: מוזיקה‎ (múzika)
• Hungarian: muzsika
• Icelandic: músík
• Javanese: musik
• Northern Kurdish: muzîk
• Limburgish: meziek
• Lingala: mizíki
• Lithuanian: muzika
• Malagasy: mozika
• Norwegian: musikk
  • → Northern Sami: musihkka
• Oromo: muuziqaa
• Ossetian: музыкӕ (muzykæ)
• Pangasinan: musik
• Samoan: mūsika
• Samogitian: mozėka
• Slovak: muzika
• Somali: muusig
• Lower Sorbian: muzika
• Sundanese: musik
• Swedish: musik
  • → Finnish: musiikki
• Tigrinya: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa)
• Uyghur: مۇزىكا‎ (muzika)
• Uzbek: musiqa, muzika
• Võro: muusiga
• Waray-Waray: musika
• Zazaki: muzik
• Zealandic: muziek

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• mūsica: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.si.ka/, [ˈmuː.s̠ɪ.ka]
• mūsica: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.si.ka/, [ˈmuː.zi.ka]
• mūsicā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.si.kaː/, [ˈmuː.s̠ɪ.kaː]
• mūsicā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.si.ka/, [ˈmuː.zi.ka]

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.