musée
French
Etymology
From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.ze/
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Noun
musée m (plural musées)
- museum
- Tous les dimanches, nous allons au musée.
- We go to the museum every Sunday.
- Nous irons au musée dimanche la semaine prochaine.
- We will go to the museum on Sunday next week.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: mize
- → Chadian Arabic: موزي (mūzē)
- → Luxembourgish: Musée
- → Persian: موزِه (muze)
- → Turkish: müze
Further reading
- “musée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “shrine of the Muses”), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”)).
Noun
musée m (plural musées)