muso
English
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -uːzəʊ
Noun
muso (plural musos)
- (UK, Australia, informal) Diminutive of musician.
- 2000 May 5, Justin French, “Heads up, Yes me again Mr m3a Smart mouth”, in alt.music.journalism (Usenet):
- I don't expect you to understand the hours involved in becoming a talented muso, rehearsing for months, writing a hit, recording the song, marketing the band, pressing the CDs and trying to get airplay / make some record sales... but you should be able to find a similar problem in your work...
- 2001 March 5, Gary Meadows, “Darn it!”, in aus.culture.true-blue (Usenet):
- Yeah...I probably wouldn't change have changed plans anyway. I'm sure my wife and children will get more out of a family day than if we headed into the big concrete jungle (aka city) to watch a few musos.
- 2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):
- Don't blame the musos. Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs. You don't imagine for a moment that musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public. Even the producers are only guilty of trying to feed themselves by attempting to write and execute popular songs that appeal to the LCD.
- 2018 October 5, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?”, in The Guardian:
- It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.
Catalan
Esperanto
Etymology
From Indo-European languages, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuso/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mu‧so
- Rhymes: -uso
Derived terms
- dormomuso (“dormouse”)
- kampomuso (“field mouse”)
- Miĉjo Muso (“Mickey Mouse”)
- Minjo Muso (“Minnie Mouse”)
- musa (“murine”)
- mustruo (“mousehole”)
Noun
muso (accusative singular muson, plural musoj, accusative plural musojn)
- (computing) mouse (computer input device)
Derived terms
- musklako (“mouseclick”)
- muskursoro (“mouse pointer”)
- musmato (“mousepad”)
- musumi (“to manipulate a mouse”)
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto muso, English mouse, German Maus, Russian мышь (myšʹ), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuso/
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”), of uncertain etymology but probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Cognates include Old Spanish and Lombard mus and muson, Middle French musel, English muzzle. Not related to Spanish morro (“hill; muzzle”), Occitan morre (“hill; muzzle”), Provençal mourre (“muzzle; rock”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmu.zo/
- Rhymes: -uzo
- Hyphenation: mù‧so
Noun
Related terms
- a muso duro
- smusare
- smusata
Further reading
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mūsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 275
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuso/ [ˈmu.so]
- Rhymes: -uso
- Syllabification: mu‧so
Further reading
- “muso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian
Alternative forms
- musso (traditional orthography)
Etymology
Cognate with Friulian mus, Ladin müsc as well as Ladin musciat. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmu.so/
- Hyphenation: mù‧so
Yoruba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mṹ.sò/