Etymology

From musician +‎ -o (“diminutive suffix”)Category:English terms suffixed with -o#MUSO.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːzəʊCategory:Rhymes:English/uːzəʊ#MUSOCategory:Rhymes:English/uːzəʊ/2 syllables#MUSO

Noun

muso (plural musos)Category:English lemmas#MUSOCategory:English nouns#MUSOCategory:English countable nouns#MUSOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. (UKCategory:British English#MUSO, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#MUSO, New ZealandCategory:New Zealand English#MUSO, informalCategory:English informal terms#MUSO) Diminutive of musicianCategory:English diminutive nouns#MUSO.
   • 2000 May 5, Justin French, “Heads up, Yes me again Mr m3a Smart mouth”, in alt.music.journalism‎ (Usenet):

     I don't expect you to understand the hours involved in becoming a talented muso, rehearsing for months, writing a hit, recording the song, marketing the band, pressing the CDs and trying to get airplay / make some record sales... but you should be able to find a similar problem in your work...

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   • 2001 March 5, Gary Meadows, “Darn it!”, in aus.culture.true-blue‎ (Usenet):

     Yeah...I probably wouldn't change have changed plans anyway. I'm sure my wife and children will get more out of a family day than if we headed into the big concrete jungle (aka city) to watch a few musos.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MUSO

   • 2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic‎ (Usenet):

     Don't blame the musos. Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs. You don't imagine for a moment that musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public. Even the producers are only guilty of trying to feed themselves by attempting to write and execute popular songs that appeal to the LCD.

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2. (UKCategory:British English#MUSO, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#MUSO, New ZealandCategory:New Zealand English#MUSO, informalCategory:English informal terms#MUSO) A pretentious music fan.
   • 2018 October 5, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?”, in The Guardian‎:

     It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MUSO

Anagrams

• MOUs, MoUs, Mous, SUMO, SuMo, Sumo, soum, sumo, USOM

Pronunciation

• \mù.so\

Noun

musoCategory:Bambara lemmas#MUSOCategory:Bambara nouns#MUSOCategory:Bambara entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. woman
2. wife

Verb

musoCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#MUSOCategory:Catalan verb forms#MUSOCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. first-person singular present indicative of musar

Noun

musoCategory:Dyula lemmas#MUSOCategory:Dyula nouns#MUSOCategory:Dyula entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. woman

Etymology

Borrowed from Indo-EuropeanCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Indo-European languages#MUSO languages, ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MUSO *muh₂s.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from EnglishCategory:Esperanto semantic loans from English#MUSOCategory:Esperanto terms derived from English#MUSO mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuso/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#MUSOCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#MUSO

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -usoCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/uso#MUSOCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/uso/2 syllables#MUSO
• Syllabification: mu‧so

Noun

muso (accusative singular muson, plural musoj, accusative plural musojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#MUSOCategory:Esperanto nouns#MUSOCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. mouse (rodent of the genus Mus)

   Hypernym: ronĝulo

   Hyponyms: musido, musino

   Holonym: musaro

Derived terms

• dormomuso (“dormouse”)
• kampomuso (“field mouse”)
• Miĉjo Muso (“Mickey Mouse”)
• Minjo Muso (“Minnie Mouse”)
• musa (“murine”)
• mustruo (“mousehole”)

Noun

muso (accusative singular muson, plural musoj, accusative plural musojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#MUSOCategory:Esperanto nouns#MUSOCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. (computingCategory:eo:Computing#MUSO) mouse (computer input device)

Further reading

• “muso”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “muso”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Etymology

Borrowed from EsperantoCategory:Ido terms borrowed from Esperanto#MUSOCategory:Ido terms derived from Esperanto#MUSO muso, EnglishCategory:Ido terms borrowed from English#MUSOCategory:Ido terms derived from English#MUSO mouse, GermanCategory:Ido terms borrowed from German#MUSOCategory:Ido terms derived from German#MUSO Maus, RussianCategory:Ido terms borrowed from Russian#MUSOCategory:Ido terms derived from Russian#MUSO мышь (myšʹ), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ido terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MUSO *muh₂s.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from EnglishCategory:Ido semantic loans from English#MUSOCategory:Ido terms derived from English#MUSO mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuso/Category:Ido terms with IPA pronunciation#MUSO

Noun

musoCategory:Ido lemmas#MUSOCategory:Ido nouns#MUSOCategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO (plural musi)

1. mouse (rodent)
2. (computingCategory:io:Computing#MUSO) mouse

Etymology

Inherited from Late LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Late Latin#MUSOCategory:Italian terms derived from Late Latin#MUSO mūsus (“muzzle”), of uncertain etymology but probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Cognates include Old Spanish and Lombard mus and muson, Middle French musel, English muzzle. Not related to Spanish morro (“hill; muzzle”), Occitan morre (“hill; muzzle”), Provençal mourre (“muzzle; rock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.zo/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#MUSOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#MUSO
• Rhymes: -uzoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/uzo#MUSOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/uzo/2 syllables#MUSO
• Hyphenation: mù‧so

Noun

muso m (plural musi, diminutive musino)Category:Italian lemmas#MUSOCategory:Italian nouns#MUSOCategory:Italian countable nouns#MUSOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Italian masculine nouns#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. muzzle (of an animal)
2. (derogatoryCategory:Italian derogatory terms#MUSO) mug, face (of a person)
3. nose (of an aircraft)
4. front (of a car etc.)

Further reading

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mūsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 275

Anagrams

• sumo

Noun

musoCategory:Mandinka lemmas#MUSOCategory:Mandinka nouns#MUSOCategory:Mandinka entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. woman
2. wife

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuso/ [ˈmu.so]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#MUSOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MUSO
• Rhymes: -usoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uso#MUSOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uso/2 syllables#MUSO
• Syllabification: mu‧so

Etymology 1

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#MUSO musa.

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “muso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Alternative forms

• musso (traditional orthography)

Etymology

Cognate with Friulian mus, Ladin müsc as well as Ladin musciat. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Category:Requests for expansion of etymologies in Venetan entries#MUSO

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.so/Category:Venetan terms with IPA pronunciation#MUSO
• Hyphenation: mù‧so

Noun

muso m (plural musi)Category:Venetan lemmas#MUSOCategory:Venetan nouns#MUSOCategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Venetan masculine nouns#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. donkey, ass

   Synonym: àxeno

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mṹ.sò/Category:Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation#MUSO

Interjection

músòCategory:Yoruba lemmas#MUSOCategory:Yoruba interjections#MUSOCategory:Yoruba entries with incorrect language header#MUSOCategory:Pages with entries#MUSOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MUSO

1. hooray, an expression used to denote happiness or joy.