different between muse vs muce

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

Noun

muce (plural muces)

1. Alternative form of muse (hole through which an animal passes)

Anagrams

• cume

Latin

Noun

m?ce

1. vocative singular of m?cus

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mut?s?/, [?mut?s?]

Noun

muce

1. inflection of muka:
   1. dative/locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Old French

Noun

muce f (oblique plural muces, nominative singular muce, nominative plural muces)

1. hidden store; cache

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (muce)