The corpus record
Μοῦσα
mousa
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Theogony 13 · 18.88/10k
- Rhesus 8 · 14.88/10k
- Ion 5 · 12.46/10k
- Birds 10 · 9.38/10k
- Frogs 8 · 8.78/10k
- Trojan Women 5 · 7.06/10k
- Phaedrus 10 · 6.02/10k
- Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
- Heracles 4 · 5.11/10k
- Ion 4 · 4.37/10k
- Phoenissae 4 · 4.14/10k
- Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Μοῦσα (scan pp. 1023-1024; entry #4182). Root candidates: *men-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Μοῦσα (scan pp. 1232-1233; entry #3951).
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