musical
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- musicall (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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.
- the child is musical; having a musical ear
- 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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NounEdit
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.
Derived termsEdit
- jukebox musical
TranslationsEdit
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CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
musical m (plural musicals)
Further readingEdit
- “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “musical”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “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.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English musical.
NounEdit
musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)
- A musical.
InflectionEdit
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 formsEdit
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin mūsicālis. Morphologically, from musique + -al.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical (feminine musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)
Derived termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
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Further readingEdit
- “musical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical m or f (plural musicais)
SynonymsEdit
- (musical): músico
Further readingEdit
- “musical” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English musical.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
musical (plural musicalek)
- musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
InterlinguaEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical
- musical (relating to music)
SynonymsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English musical.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
musical m (invariable)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ musical in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
musical m (definite singular musicalen, indefinite plural musicaler, definite plural musicalene)
- form removed by a 1982 spelling decision; superseded by musikal
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)
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PiedmonteseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical
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PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica + -ālis.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
musical m inan
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From música (“music”) + -al (“of or relating to”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical m or f (plural musicais)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
musical m (plural musicais)
- musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.
Related termsEdit
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
musical (plural musicales)
NounEdit
musical m (plural musicales)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “musical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014