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musical

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English

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Etymology

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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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  • IPA(key): /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/
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musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

  1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
    musical proportion
    musical instruments
  2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
    She had a musical voice.
  3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
    having a musical ear
    The child is musical.
  4. 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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musical (plural musicals)

  2. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
    • 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 221:
      It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.
  3. (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

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musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

  1. musical

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musical m (plural musicals)

  1. musical

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Danish

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Borrowed from English musical.

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musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)

  1. A musical.

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Declension of musical
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative musical musicalen musicaler
musicals 		musicalerne
genitive musicals musicalens musicalers
musicals' 		musicalernes

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin mūsicālis. By surface analysis, musique +‎ -al.

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musical (feminine musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)

  1. musical

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: mizikal
  • → Persian: موزیکال (muzikâl)
  • → Turkish: müzikal

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Galician

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  • IPA(key): /musiˈkal/ [mu.s̺iˈkɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

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musical m or f (plural musicais)

  1. musical; of or pertaining to music
    Synonym: músico

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English musical.[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmjuzikɛl]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

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musical (plural musicalek)

  1. musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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
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

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  1. ^ 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

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musical

  1. musical (relating to music)

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Italian

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Borrowed from English musical.

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musical m (invariable)

  1. musical

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  1. ^ musical in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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musical m (definite singular musicalen, indefinite plural musicaler, definite plural musicalene)

  1. form removed by a 1982 spelling decision; superseded by musikal

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musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)

  1. musical (of or relating to music)
  2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

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musical

  1. musical
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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica + -ālis.

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  • IPA(key): /mjuˈzi.kal/
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  • Rhymes: -ikal
  • Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

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musical m inan

  1. (film, music, theater) musical (stage performance, show or film)

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Declension of musical
singular plural
nominative musical musicale
genitive musicalu musicali
dative musicalowi musicalom
accusative musical musicale
instrumental musicalem musicalami
locative musicalu musicalach
vocative musicalu musicale

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  • musical in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Etymology

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From música (“music”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

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musical m or f (plural musicais)

  1. musical (of or relating to music)
    • 2010, Irineu Guerrini Jr., Eduardo Vicente, Na trilha do disco: Relatos sobre a indústria fonográfica no Brasil, Editora E-papers, →ISBN, page 177:
      É possível que, quando baixar a poeira e a indústria da música terminar de se reestruturar, constatemos que não só várias atividades profissionais do universo musical estarão em vias de desaparecer, mas também que outras novas estarão emergindo.
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  2. musical (pleasing to the ear)
    Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

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musical m (plural musicais)

  1. musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)
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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /musiˈkal/ [mu.siˈkal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

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musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicales)

  1. musical

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musical m (plural musicales)

  1. musical
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