musique
English
Noun
musique (usually uncountable, plural musiques)
- Obsolete form of music.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.zik/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /my.zɪk/, /mʏ.zɪk/
- Homophones: musiques, musiquent
Audio (France) (file) - Rhymes: -ik
Etymology 1
From Old French musique, borrowed from Latin mūsica, borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Noun
musique f (countable and uncountable, plural musiques)
- music
Alternative forms
- zicmu, zikmu (verlan)
- zik (clipping)
Derived terms
- aller plus vite que la musique
- boîte à musique
- connaître la musique
- en avant la musique
- instrument de musique
- musique classique
- musique de chambre
- musiquement
- papier à musique
Related terms
- musicale
- musicien
Descendants
- Antillean Creole: mizik
- Haitian Creole: mizik
- ⇒ Guianese Creole: lanmizik
- ⇒ Seychellois Creole: lanmizik
- → Dutch: muziek
- Afrikaans: musiek
- → Caribbean Javanese: musig
- → Indonesian: musik
- → Malay: musik
- → Papiamentu: muzik, muzyk
- → West Frisian: muzyk
- → Luxembourgish: Musek
- → Persian: موزیک (muzik)
- → Central Kurdish: مووزیک (mûzîk), موزیک (muzîk)
- → Turkish: müzik
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
musique
- inflection of musiquer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “musique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
musique
- Alternative form of musike
Norman
Alternative forms
- mûsique (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Noun
musique f (plural musiques)
- (France) music
Old French
Alternative forms
- musike
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mūsica, borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /myˈzikə/
Noun
musique f (oblique plural musiques, nominative singular musique, nominative plural musiques)
- music
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- La tierce oevre fu de musique
- The third work was of music
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Descendants
- French: musique (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: musique, mûsique
- Picard: musique
- Walloon: muzike
- → Middle English: musike, music, musice, musik, musique, musyk, musyke
- English: music (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: muisic
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muˈsike/ [muˈsi.ke]
- Rhymes: -ike
- Syllabification: mu‧si‧que
Verb
musique
- inflection of musicar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative