Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Noun
mūsica f (genitive mūsicae); first declension
- music (art form)
Descendants
- Borrowings
- Unsorted borrowings
- → Abkhaz: амузика (amuzikʼa)
- → Albanian: muzikë
- → Amharic: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa)
- → Arabic: مُوسِيقَى (mūsīqā) (see there for further descendants)
- → Banyumasan: musik
- → Bavarian: Musi
- → Bulgarian: музика (muzika)
- → Chuvash: мусӑк (mus̬ăk)
- → Cornish: musik
- → Czech: muzika (see there for further descendants)
- → Danish: musik
- → Dutch Low Saxon: meziek
- → Elfdalian: musik
- → Estonian: muusika
- → Faroese: musikkur
- → North Frisian: musiik
- → Saterland Frisian: Musik
- → Georgian: მუსიკა (musiḳa)
- → German Low German: Musik
- → Hebrew: מוזיקה (múzika)
- → Hungarian: muzsika
- → Icelandic: músík
- → Javanese: musik
- → Northern Kurdish: muzîk
- → Limburgish: meziek
- → Lingala: mizíki
- → Lithuanian: muzika
- → Malagasy: mozika
- → Norwegian: musikk
- → Oromo: muuziqaa
- → Ossetian: музыкӕ (muzykæ)
- → Pangasinan: musik
- → Samoan: mūsika
- → Samogitian: mozėka
- → Slovak: muzika
- → Somali: muusig
- → Lower Sorbian: muzika
- → Sundanese: musik
- → Swedish: musik
- → Tigrinya: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa)
- → Uyghur: مۇزىكا (muzika)
- → Võro: muusiga
- → Waray-Waray: musika
- → Zazaki: muzik
- → Zealandic: muziek
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
References
- “musica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “musica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "musica", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- musica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
- “musica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “musica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin