Μοῦσα
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Several hypotheses exist:
- From *Μονθια (*Monthia), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”) + *dʰeh₁-, whence μανθάνω (manthánō).
- From *Μοντια (*Montia), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower; mountain”), since all the most important cult-centres of the Muses were on mountains or hills, [1] but Beekes finds this etymology impossible, as the root mont- 'mountain' from IE *men- is not found in Greek.
- From Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with μῶμαι (mômai, “to seek after, meditate”), μαίομαι (maíomai, “to seek after”), μαιμάω (maimáō, “to be very eager”), Latin mōs, English mood, Proto-Slavic *sъmě̀ti.
- Beekes suggests the possibility of a borrowing from Pre-Greek.
- Swerdlow[2] traces it back to Bohairic Coptic Egyptian mōw—apparently cognate with Hebrew משה, Moses—medieval sources mentioning that, like the prophet, “music was found by the water.”
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mûː.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmu.sa/
Proper noun[edit]
Μοῦσᾰ • (Moûsa) f (genitive Μούσης); first declension
Declension[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Μοῦσᾰ hē Moûsa |
τὼ Μούσᾱ tṑ Moúsā |
αἱ Μοῦσαι hai Moûsai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Μούσης tês Moúsēs |
τοῖν Μούσαιν toîn Moúsain |
τῶν Μουσῶν tôn Mousôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Μούσῃ têi Moúsēi |
τοῖν Μούσαιν toîn Moúsain |
ταῖς Μούσαις taîs Moúsais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Μοῦσᾰν tḕn Moûsan |
τὼ Μούσᾱ tṑ Moúsā |
τᾱ̀ς Μούσᾱς tā̀s Moúsās | ||||||||||
Vocative | Μοῦσᾰ Moûsa |
Μούσᾱ Moúsā |
Μοῦσαι Moûsai | ||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | Μοῦσᾰ Moûsa |
Μούσᾱ Moúsā |
Μοῦσαι Moûsai | ||||||||||
Genitive | Μούσης Moúsēs |
Μούσαιν / Μούσαιῐν / Μούσῃῐν Moúsai(i)n / Moúsēiin |
Μουσᾱ́ων / Μουσέ͜ων / Μουσῶν Mousā́ōn / Mousé͜ōn / Mousôn | ||||||||||
Dative | Μούσῃ Moúsēi |
Μούσαιν / Μούσαιῐν / Μούσῃῐν Moúsai(i)n / Moúsēiin |
Μούσῃσῐ / Μούσῃσῐν / Μούσῃς / Μούσαις Moúsēisi(n) / Moúsēis / Moúsais | ||||||||||
Accusative | Μοῦσᾰν Moûsan |
Μούσᾱ Moúsā |
Μούσᾱς Moúsās | ||||||||||
Vocative | Μοῦσᾰ Moûsa |
Μούσᾱ Moúsā |
Μοῦσαι Moûsai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “Μοῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μοῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μοῦσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Μοῦσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 704
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