Mosa

See also: mosa

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Proper noun

Mosa m

  1. Meuse

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Proper noun

Mosa ?

  1. The river Meuse

Latin

Etymology

From Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā, of uncertain origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mā- (“to stupefy”) in the sense of the river's tortuousness, cognate with Proto-Germanic *masōną (“to confound, be weary, dream”) (modern English maze), Welsh mydu (“to vault, arch”), Old Norse meis (“curvatura”).[1]

Or, Albrecht Greule writes that it could perhaps be from *meh₂d-, whence Latin madeō (“I am wet”) and Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, “full”).[2]

Compare also Proto-Germanic *Masō (Dutch Maas), presumably from the same source.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mosa m (genitive Mosae); first declension

  1. the river Meuse

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular
nominative Mosa
genitive Mosae
dative Mosae
accusative Mosam
ablative Mosā
vocative Mosa

Descendants

  • Italian: Mosa
  • Portuguese: Mosa
  • Spanish: Mosa
  • Walloon: Moûze

References

  • Mosa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Mosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. ↑ Ferguson, Robert (1862): The River-names of Europe, p. 142
  2. ↑ Albrecht Greule, Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen (2014)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Mosa m

  1. Meuse (a river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mosa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmo.sa]
  • Rhymes: -osa

Proper noun

Mosa m

  1. the river Meuse
  • moseno
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