mousse

common nouncommon nounadjectiveverb

Syllable Decomposition

mousse

probably comes from both the Frankish mosa (derived from the Dutch mos) ("moss", the plant, sense 1.1) latinized as mossa, and the Latin mulsa ("mead"), which would have been used to designate the plant metaphorically.

Definition

Synonym

émoussé

Plural

mousses

Translations

  • germangerman:stumpf
  • englishenglish:blunt
  • danishdanish:stump
  • spanishspanish:obtuso
  • finnishfinnish:tylsä
  • italianitalian:spuntato
  • dutchdutch:stomp
  • polishpolish:tępy
  • portugueseportuguese:obtuso
  • russianrussian:тупой
  • swedishswedish:ovass
  • turkishturkish:yassi

See also

moussette (cn.) mousse (cn.) mousse (cn.) moussage (cn.) mousser (v.) mousseux (adj.) moussu (adj.)