Mosa

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Mosa m

1. Meuse (a river in Western Europe)

From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.

Mosa ?

1. the river Meuse

• -soma, Amos, Samo, maso, soma

From Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā, of uncertain origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mā- (“to stupefy”) in the sense of the river's tortuousness, cognate with Proto-Germanic *masōną (“to confound, be weary, dream”) (modern English maze), Welsh mydu (“to vault, arch”), Old Norse meis (“curvatura”).^[1]

Or, Albrecht Greule writes that it could perhaps be from *meh₂d-, whence Latin madeō (“I am wet”) and Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, “full”).^[2]

Compare also Proto-Germanic *Masō (Dutch Maas), presumably from the same source.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔːs̬ä]
• (ablative case): (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.saː/, [ˈmɔs̠äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔːs̬ä]

Mosa m sg (genitive Mosae); first declension

1. Meuse or Maas (a river in what was Belgic Gaul)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Mosa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Mosa

1. Moses

Mosa m

1. Meuse (a river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands)

Borrowed from Latin Mosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmosa/ [ˈmo.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: Mo‧sa

Mosa m

1. Meuse (a river in France)
2. Meuse (a department of France)