mușat

Romanian

Etymology

From frumos, through the intermediate of a form frumușat, reduced through a childish-type deformation (cf. the similar reduction in (ma)mă-ta (“"your mother"”) and some other words or expressions). An alternative and unlikely explanation favors a derivation from Latin musteus (“young”).[1] While it is now archaic or obsolete in Daco-Romanian, the Aromanian cognate mushat is the primary word for "beautiful" in that language. Mușat is also a surname and was the name of an early dynasty of rulers in Moldova (see House of Mușat on Wikipedia).

Adjective

mușat m or n (feminine singular mușată, masculine plural mușați, feminine and neuter plural mușate)

  1. (archaic, obsolete, regional, Transylvania) beautiful, handsome, cute
    Synonyms: frumos, drăguț

Declension

Declension of mușat
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite mușat mușată mușați mușate
definite mușatul mușata mușații mușatele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite mușat mușate mușați mușate
definite mușatului mușatei mușaților mușatelor

References

  1. ^ http://www.dex.ro/musat
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