museum Latin · revision 4491

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Varro|origins=grc Μοῦσα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [muːˈseː.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [muˈs̬ɛː.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mūsēum''' ''n'' (genitive mūsēī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|Μουσεῖον|tr=Mouseîon|t=shrine of the Muses]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) from [[m|grc|Μοῦσα|tr=Moûsa|t=Muse]].^(Etymonline)^(Köbler 2010) Variant spellings are [[m|la|mūsaeum]] and [[m|la|mūsīum]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro, in his book on farming, uses it of a place for learned pursuits.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a place sacred to the Muses, especially a building for study, a library or academy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses it in the life of Claudius, and the Historia Augusta in that of Hadrian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Pliny the Elder uses it of a grotto.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Neo-Latin it was also a private collection of curiosities and a library.^(Wiktionary) [[en|museum]] is recorded in the 1610s for the university building at Alexandria, and later for libraries and collections.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a grotto.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English ''museum'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A place sacred to the [[m|en|Muses]]; a place of study, library, academy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A grotto.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(New Latin)'' A collection of curiosities, a [[m|en|museum]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Musa|alt=Mūsa]]

+ * [[en|museum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD lists a separate word ''mūsēum'' or ''mūsaeum'' “mosaic work”, probably foreign, of uncertain spelling, which the Historia Augusta uses.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}