μουσική - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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μουσῐκή • (mousĭkḗ)

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of μουσικός (mousikós)

By ellipsis from μουσικὴ τέχνη (mousikḕ tékhnē) from μουσικός (mousikós, “musical”) from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).

μουσῐκή • (mousĭkḗ) f (genitive μουσῐκῆς); first declension

1. any of the Muses' arts, especially music and lyrical poetry set to music
2. art

• Arabic: مُوسِيقَى (mūsīqā)
• Greek: μουσική (mousikí)
• Pontic Greek: μουσική (mousikí)
• → Latin: mūsica (see there for further descendants)

• “μουσική”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μουσική”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μουσική in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • art idem, page 42.
  • concert idem, page 155.
  • counterpart idem, page 177.
  • letter idem, page 486.
  • literature idem, page 494.
  • music idem, page 547.
  • scholarship idem, page 739.

From Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ).

• IPA^(key): [musiˈci]
• Hyphenation: μου‧σι‧κή

μουσική • (mousikí) f (plural μουσικές)

1. the subject and art of music
2. the music as opposed to the lyrics
3. a band or orchestra
4. a genre of music
5. sheet music, score

• μουσικός (mousikós, “music, musical”)

• μουσική on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

μουσική • (mousikí)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative singular of μουσικός (mousikós)