musique

See also: musiqué and mûsique

English

Noun

musique (usually uncountable, plural musiques)

1. Obsolete form of music.

See also

• musique concrète

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.zik/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /my.zɪk/, /mʏ.zɪk/
• Homophones: musiques, musiquent

• Audio (France)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ik

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French musique, borrowed from Latin mūsica, borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Noun

musique f (countable and uncountable, plural musiques)

1. music

Alternative forms

• zicmu, zikmu (verlan)
• zik (clipping)

Derived terms

• aller plus vite que la musique
• boîte à musique
• connaître la musique
• en avant la musique
• instrument de musique
• musique classique
• musique de chambre
• musiquement
• papier à musique

 

Related terms

• musicale
• musicien

 

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: mizik
• Haitian Creole: mizik
• ⇒ Guianese Creole: lanmizik
• ⇒ Seychellois Creole: lanmizik
• → Dutch: muziek
  • Afrikaans: musiek
  • → Caribbean Javanese: musig
  • → Indonesian: musik
    • → Malay: musik
  • → Papiamentu: muzik, muzyk
  • → West Frisian: muzyk
• → Luxembourgish: Musek
• → Persian: موزیک‎ (muzik)
  • → Central Kurdish: مووزیک‎ (mûzîk), موزیک‎ (muzîk)
• → Turkish: müzik

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

musique

1. inflection of musiquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

musique

1. Alternative form of musike

Norman

Alternative forms

• mûsique (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Noun

musique f (plural musiques)

1. (France) music

Old French

Alternative forms

• musike

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūsica, borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myˈzikə/

Noun

musique f (oblique plural musiques, nominative singular musique, nominative plural musiques)

1. music
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     La tierce oevre fu de musique

     The third work was of music

Descendants

• French: musique (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: musique, mûsique
• Picard: musique
• Walloon: muzike
• → Middle English: musike, music, musice, musik, musique, musyk, musyke
  • English: music (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: muisic

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈsike/ [muˈsi.ke]
• Rhymes: -ike
• Syllabification: mu‧si‧que

Verb

musique

1. inflection of musicar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative