Definify.com

Definition 2024

See also: μούσα and μοῦσα

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

First declension of ἡ Μοῦσᾰ; τῆς Μούσης

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Μοῦσᾰ	τὼ Μούσᾱ	αἱ Μοῦσαι
Genitive	τῆς Μούσης	τοῖν Μούσαιν	τῶν Μουσῶν
Dative	τῇ Μούσῃ	τοῖν Μούσαιν	ταῖς Μούσαις
Accusative	τὴν Μοῦσᾰν	τὼ Μούσᾱ	τᾱ̀ς Μούσᾱς
Vocative	Μοῦσᾰ	Μούσᾱ	Μοῦσαι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, 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

See also: μούσα and Μοῦσα

μοῦσᾰ • ‎(moûsa) f ‎(genitive μούσης); first declension

From *Μονθια, from Proto-Indo-European *men- ‎(“to think”) + *dʰeh₁-, whence μανθάνω ‎(manthánō).
From *Μοντια, 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.