Muse

See also: muse, musé, musė, muše, and Muße

English

Three Musæ Clio, Euterpe, and Thalia

Etymology

From Latin Musa.

Pronunciation

enPR: myo͞oz, IPA^(key): /mjuːz/
Homophone: mews
Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

Muse (plural Muses)

One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.

Usage notes

The plural Musae can also be found, though it is much rarer than Muses.

Hyponyms

(Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

Related terms

museum
music

Translations

one of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts

Armenian: մուսա (hy) (musa)
Breton: muzenn f muzezed pl
Danish: Muse
Dutch: muse (nl), Nadenken
Finnish: muusa (fi)
French: muse (fr) f, Muse (fr) f
German: Muse (de) f
Greek: μούσα (el) f (moúsa)
Interlingua: musa
Italian: Musa (it), musa (it) f
Japanese: ムーサ (mūsa)
Latin: Musa

Luxembourgish: Muse
Polish: muza (pl) f
Portuguese: musa (pt) f
Russian: му́за (ru) f (múza)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: музa f

Roman: muza (sh) f
Slovene: muza (sl) f
Spanish: Musa f
Swahili: Muza
Swedish: Musa
Turkish: Müz

Anagrams

Semu, emus, umes

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Muse f (genitive Muse, plural Musen)

A Muse (deity).
A source of inspiration.

Further reading

Muse in Duden online

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