mousse
English edit
Etymology edit
From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)
- An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
- ham mousse
- A styling cream used for hair.
- He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
- A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
- 1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN:
- Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).
- 1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21:
- A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been positively correlated with the tendency to form mousse.
- 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:
- When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.
- 2009, Elspeth Leacock, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 37:
- However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky. If all these skimmers had been on-site during the first three days of calm weather, before the oil was churned into mousse, they could have made a real difference
Descendants edit
- → Irish: mús
Translations edit
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Verb edit
mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)
- To apply mousse (styling cream).
- He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈmou̯sːe/, [ˈmo̞u̯s̠ːe̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈmuseː/, [ˈmus̠e̞ː]
- IPA(key): /ˈmuse/, [ˈmus̠e̞]
- Rhymes: -ousːe
- Syllabification(key): mous‧se
Noun edit
mousse
Declension edit
Inflection of mousse (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mousse | mousset | ||
genitive | moussen | moussejen | ||
partitive | moussea | mousseja | ||
illative | mousseen | mousseihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mousse | mousset | ||
accusative | nom. | mousse | mousset | |
gen. | moussen | |||
genitive | moussen | moussejen mousseinrare | ||
partitive | moussea | mousseja | ||
inessive | moussessa | mousseissa | ||
elative | moussesta | mousseista | ||
illative | mousseen | mousseihin | ||
adessive | moussella | mousseilla | ||
ablative | mousselta | mousseilta | ||
allative | mousselle | mousseille | ||
essive | moussena | mousseina | ||
translative | mousseksi | mousseiksi | ||
abessive | moussetta | mousseitta | ||
instructive | — | moussein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mousse”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Originally from a dialect south of the Loire, from Vulgar Latin *muttius (compare Occitan mos), of Gaulish origin, or alternatively from Latin mutilus (compare Italian mozzo).
Adjective edit
mousse (plural mousses)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss”).
For the culinary sense one might suspect influence by Dutch moes, German Mus (both “mush, purée”). However, the metaphorical use of mousse for “foam” is older and the culinary sense can thence be derived without difficulty.
Noun edit
mousse f (plural mousses)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
mousse m (plural mousses)
- a boy serving on a ship: a cabin boy
Derived terms edit
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
mousse
- inflection of mousser:
Further reading edit
- “mousse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mousse (plural mousse-ok)
- mousse (dessert)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | mousse | mousse-ok |
accusative | mousse-t | mousse-okat |
dative | mousse-nak | mousse-oknak |
instrumental | mousse-szal | mousse-okkal |
causal-final | mousse-ért | mousse-okért |
translative | mousse-szá | mousse-okká |
terminative | mousse-ig | mousse-okig |
essive-formal | mousse-ként | mousse-okként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | mousse-ban | mousse-okban |
superessive | mousse-on | mousse-okon |
adessive | mousse-nál | mousse-oknál |
illative | mousse-ba | mousse-okba |
sublative | mousse-ra | mousse-okra |
allative | mousse-hoz | mousse-okhoz |
elative | mousse-ból | mousse-okból |
delative | mousse-ról | mousse-okról |
ablative | mousse-tól | mousse-októl |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
mousse-é | mousse-oké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
mousse-éi | mousse-okéi |
Possessive forms of mousse | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | mousse-om | mousse-aim |
2nd person sing. | mousse-od | mousse-aid |
3rd person sing. | mousse-a | mousse-ai |
1st person plural | mousse-unk | mousse-aink |
2nd person plural | mousse-otok | mousse-aitok |
3rd person plural | mousse-uk | mousse-aik |
Derived terms edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French mousse, from Spanish mozo.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
mousse m (plural mousses)
Noun edit
mousse m or f (plural mousses)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mous‧se
Noun edit
mousse f or (nonstandard) m (plural mousses)
- Alternative spelling of musse
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French mousse.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mousse f (plural mousses)
Usage notes edit
- According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “mousse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
mousse c
- mousse (for example chocolate mousse)
- finely-ground meat mixed with whipped cream or egg white
Declension edit
Declension of mousse | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mousse | moussen | mousser | mousserna |
Genitive | mousses | moussens | moussers | moussernas |