different between museum vs herbarium

English

Alternative forms

• musæum (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin m?s?um (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (????? (Moûsa)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mju??zi??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mju?zi.?m/, /mju?zæ?m/
• Rhymes: -i??m

Noun

museum (plural museums or musea)

1. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Usage notes

The plural "musea" has always been very rare in English.

Derived terms

• open-air museum

Related terms

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum.

Noun

museum (plural [please provide])|museums

1. museum

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin m?s?um from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”), derived from ????? (Moûsa, “Muse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mu?s???m]

Noun

museum n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural museer, definite plural museerne)

1. museum

Declension

References

• “museum” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin museum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?my?ze?.?m/
• Hyphenation: mu?se?um

Noun

museum n (plural musea or museums, diminutive museumpje n)

1. museum

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: museum
• ? Indonesian: museum

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch museum, from Latin museum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m??sj?m], [mu?se?m]
• Hyphenation: mu?sé?um

Noun

museum (plural museum-museum, first-person possessive museumku, second-person possessive museummu, third-person possessive museumnya)

1. museum: a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Alternative forms

• musium
• muzium (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “museum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon, “a shrine of the Muses”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mu??se?.um/, [mu??s?e????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mu?se.um/, [mu?s???um]

Noun

m?s?um n (genitive m?s??); second declension

1. museum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• museum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• museum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• museum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• museum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• musé

Noun

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

1. a museum

Derived terms

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

References

• “museum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• muse, musé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??se??m/

Noun

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

1. a museum

Derived terms

• friluftsmuseum
• kunstmuseum

References

• “museum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin museum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??se???m/

Noun

museum n

1. a museum

Usage notes

As the first part of a compound, the form musei- is used.

Declension

Related terms

References

• museum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my?se??m/

Noun

museum n (plural museums or musea, diminutive museumke)

1. museum

English

Etymology

From Latin herb?rium. Doublet of arbor.

Noun

herbarium (plural herbariums or herbaria)

1. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
2. A building or institution where such a collection is kept.

Coordinate terms

• fungarium
• hortorium
• xylarium

Related terms

• herbarial

Translations

See also

• arboretum
• botanical garden

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin herb?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r?ba?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: her?ba?ri?um
• Rhymes: -a?ri?m

Noun

herbarium n (plural herbaria)

1. herbarium
2. herbarium book

Latin

Alternative forms

• herb.

Etymology

From herb?rius (“botanist”), from herba (“grass, vegetation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /her?ba?.ri.um/, [h?r?bä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /er?ba.ri.um/, [?r?b???ium]

Noun

herb?rium n (genitive herb?ri? or herb?r?); second declension

1. a herbarium; a collection of dried plants
2. a herbarium (a written work on botany)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• herb?rium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• herbarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• herb?r?um in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 741/3

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

herbarium n (definite singular herbariet, indefinite plural herbarier, definite plural herbaria or herbariene)

1. herbarium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

herbarium n (definite singular herbariet, indefinite plural herbarium, definite plural herbaria)

1. herbarium