Mosa

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Catalan[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Proper noun[edit]

Mosa m

  1. Meuse

Italian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Proper noun[edit]

Mosa ?

  1. the river Meuse

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā, of uncertain origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mā- (“to stupefy”) in the sense of the river's tortuousness, cognate with Proto-Germanic *masōną (“to confound, be weary, dream”) (modern English maze), Welsh mydu (“to vault, arch”), Old Norse meis (“curvatura”).[1]

Or, Albrecht Greule writes that it could perhaps be from *meh₂d-, whence Latin madeō (“I am wet”) and Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, “full”).[2]

Compare also Proto-Germanic *Masō (Dutch Maas), presumably from the same source.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

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Mosa m sg (genitive Mosae); first declension

  1. Meuse or Maas (a river in what was Belgic Gaul)

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Mosa
Genitive Mosae
Dative Mosae
Accusative Mosam
Ablative Mosā
Vocative Mosa

Descendants[edit]

  • Catalan: Mosa
  • French: Meuse
  • Italian: Mosa
  • Portuguese: Mosa
  • Spanish: Mosa
  • Walloon: Moûze


References[edit]

  • “Mosa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Mosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Ferguson, Robert (1862): The River-names of Europe, p. 142
  2. ^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) “Maas”, in Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 333b

Maranao[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Mosa

  1. Moses

Portuguese[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Mosa m

  1. Meuse (a river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands)

Spanish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin Mosa.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmosa/ [ˈmo.sa]
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: Mo‧sa

Proper noun[edit]

Mosa m

  1. Meuse (a river in France)
  2. Meuse (a department of France)

Related terms[edit]

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