Mosella

From Latin Mosella.

Mosella f

1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)

• Mos. (abbreviation)

A diminutive form of Mosa, meaning "little Meuse".

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔˈsɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈs̬ɛl.la]

Mosella m sg or f sg (genitive Mosellae); first declension

1. a major river in modern France, Luxembourg and Germany; modern Moselle

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• (River Moselle): Mosula

• Mosellēus
• Mosellicus

• “Mŏsella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mŏsella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 997/1.
• “Mosella” on page 1,137/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)