different between muse vs mese

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo?oz
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /mju?z/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /mjuz/
• Homophones: mews, Meuse
• Rhymes: -u?z

Etymology 1

From Middle French muse, from Latin M?sa, from Ancient Greek ????? (Moûsa).

Noun

muse (plural muses)

1. A source of inspiration.

2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 85:

     My toung-tide Mu?e in manners holds her ?till,

     While comments of your prai?e richly compil'd,

     Re?erue their Character with goulden quill,

     And precious phra?e by all the Mu?es fil'd.

Synonyms

• (source of inspiration): Pierian spring

Related terms

• museum
• music

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

Verb

muse (third-person singular simple present muses, present participle musing, simple past and past participle mused)

1. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
2. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
3. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
   • c. 1726, James Thomson, Hymn

     Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
4. (transitive) To wonder at.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ponder

Related terms

• muser
• musing
• amuse

Translations

Noun

muse (plural muses)

1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:

     He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

Etymology 3

From French musse. See muset.

Noun

muse (plural muses)

1. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

   Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

Anagrams

• Semu, emus, umes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myz/
• Homophones: musent, muses

Noun

muse f (plural muses)

1. artistic inspiration
2. muse (specific artistic subject)

Verb

muse

1. first-person singular present indicative of muser
2. third-person singular present indicative of muser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muser
5. second-person singular imperative of muser

Anagrams

• émus, meus, mues, seum

Italian

Noun

muse f

1. plural of musa

Anagrams

• sume

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?s.

Noun

muse

1. Alternative form of mous

Etymology 2

From Latin M?sa.

Noun

muse

1. Alternative form of Muse

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French musée, from Latin m?s?um, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.se?/, [m??.?se?]

Noun

muse n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural muse or museer, definite plural museene or musea)

1. Alternative form of musé

References

• “muse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (Moûsa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m??.s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

muse f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural muser, definite plural musene)

1. a muse

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m??.s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

muse (present tense musar, past tense musa, past participle musa, passive infinitive musast, present participle musande, imperative mus)

1. to whisper

   Synonym: kviskre

Etymology 3

From French musée, from Latin m?s?um, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.se?/, [m??.?se?] (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

muse n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural muse, definite plural musea)

1. alternative spelling of musé

References

• “muse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

muse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of musirse.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of musirse.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English m?se, m?ose, m?se, m?se (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), probably from Vulgar Latin m?sa, from Latin m?nsa (“table”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic ???????????? (m?s). Compare Old English m?san (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *m?sijan?, from Proto-Germanic *m?s?, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic mat- (“food”).

Alternative forms

• mease

Noun

mese (plural meses)

1. (obsolete) A dinner; meal.

References

• "mése" in: Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.

Verb

mese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)

1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé, emes, seem, seme, semé, smee

Corsican

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mese/, [?me?s?e?]
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: me?se

Noun

mese

1. (slang) MSN Messenger

Declension

Anagrams

• Seem

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mese

1. mouse

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ma???, *ma?? (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]
• Hyphenation: me?se
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mese (plural mesék)

1. fairy tale, tale, fable

   Synonyms: tündérmese, népmese, fabula, elbeszélés, történet, sztori

2. (derogatory) fabrication, tall story, lie, yarn

   Synonyms: hazugság, kitaláció, nagyotmondás, koholmány

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• mese in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin m?nsis, m?nsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me.ze/
• Rhymes: -eze

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Derived terms

• mensile
• mensilmente
• mensilità

See also

• Category:it:Months
• settimana
• anno

Anagrams

• seme

Latin

Noun

mes?

1. ablative singular of mes?s
2. vocative singular of mes?s

References

• mese in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mese in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Old French

Noun

mese f (oblique plural meses, nominative singular mese, nominative plural meses)

1. Alternative form of messe

Pohnpeian

Noun

mese

1. face, facade
2. upper part of a yam, taro, pineapple, etc.
3. the edge of a reef

Romanian

Noun

mese f pl

1. plural of mas?

Spanish

Verb

mese

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mesarse.