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)

1. museum

1. Tous les dimanches, nous allons au musée.

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1.We go to the museum every Sunday.

1. Nous irons au musée dimanche la semaine prochaine.

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2.We will go to the museum on Sunday next week.

Derived terms

• muséal

Descendants

• → Chadian Arabic: موزي (mūzē)
• → Haitian Creole: mize
• → Persian: موزِه (muze)
• → Turkish: müze

Further reading

• “musée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• émeus, émues, eûmes

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)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) museum