musical
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- musicall (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
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Adjective edit
musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)
- Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
- musical proportion
- musical instruments
- Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
- She had a musical voice.
- Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
- having a musical ear
- The child is musical.
- Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
- 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:
- Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
- 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 341:
- Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
- 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 441:
- “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
- 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.
- 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 138:
- Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.
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Noun edit
musical (plural musicals)
- A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
- (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
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Catalan edit
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Adjective edit
musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
musical m (plural musicals)
Further reading edit
- “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “musical”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “musical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “musical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English musical.
Noun edit
musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)
- A musical.
Inflection edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | musical | musicalen | musicaler musicals |
musicalerne |
genitive | musicals | musicalens | musicalers musicals' |
musicalernes |
Alternative forms edit
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin mūsicālis. By surface analysis, musique + -al.
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Adjective edit
musical (feminine musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “musical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
musical m or f (plural musicais)
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- “musical” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English musical.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
musical (plural musicalek)
- musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | musical | musicalek |
accusative | musicalt | musicaleket |
dative | musicalnek | musicaleknek |
instrumental | musicallel | musicalekkel |
causal-final | musicalért | musicalekért |
translative | musicallé | musicalekké |
terminative | musicalig | musicalekig |
essive-formal | musicalként | musicalekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | musicalben | musicalekben |
superessive | musicalen | musicaleken |
adessive | musicalnél | musicaleknél |
illative | musicalbe | musicalekbe |
sublative | musicalre | musicalekre |
allative | musicalhez | musicalekhez |
elative | musicalből | musicalekből |
delative | musicalről | musicalekről |
ablative | musicaltől | musicalektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
musicalé | musicaleké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
musicaléi | musicalekéi |
Possessive forms of musical | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | musicalem | musicaljeim |
2nd person sing. | musicaled | musicaljeid |
3rd person sing. | musicalje | musicaljei |
1st person plural | musicalünk | musicaljeink |
2nd person plural | musicaletek | musicaljeitek |
3rd person plural | musicaljük | musicaljeik |
References edit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Interlingua edit
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musical
- musical (relating to music)
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English musical.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
musical m (invariable)
References edit
- ^ musical in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
musical m (definite singular musicalen, indefinite plural musicaler, definite plural musicalene)
- form removed by a 1982 spelling decision; superseded by musikal
Occitan edit
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Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)
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Piedmontese edit
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Adjective edit
musical
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica + -ālis.
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musical m inan
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | musical | musicale |
genitive | musicalu | musicali |
dative | musicalowi | musicalom |
accusative | musical | musicale |
instrumental | musicalem | musicalami |
locative | musicalu | musicalach |
vocative | musicalu | musicale |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From música (“music”) + -al (“of or relating to”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
musical m or f (plural musicais)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.
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Noun edit
musical m (plural musicais)
- musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.
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Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicales)
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Noun edit
musical m (plural musicales)
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Further reading edit
- “musical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014