Μοῦσα

See also: μούσα and μοῦσα

Ancient Greek

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]
From Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with μαίομαι (maíomai), Latin mōs, English mood.

Μοῦσᾰ • (Moûsa) f (genitive Μούσης); first declension

First declension of ἡ Μοῦσᾰ; τῆς Μούσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

↑
- A. B. Cook (1914), Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, Vol. I, p. 104, Cambridge University Press

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 704

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