🇪🇸 Spanish

museo

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

el museo

museum

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museo
/el muˈseo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say museo in Spanish?

IPA
/el muˈseo/

How do you pronounce museo in Spanish?

museo is pronounced /el muˈseo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El museo antiguo fue restaurado completamente el año pasado.

The old museum was completely restored last year.

Visitamos un museo hermoso que tenía cuadros famosos de Picasso.

We visited a beautiful museum that had famous paintings by Picasso.

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Why is it masculine?

Museo is masculine because it derives from Latin "musaeum," which was itself borrowed from Greek "mouseion" (temple of the Muses), and Latin nouns ending in "-eum" were typically neuter, but when adopted into Spanish, this Latin neuter ending evolved into the masculine "-o" ending that characterizes most Spanish masculine nouns.

What is the Spanish word for museum?

The Spanish word for museum is el museo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmuséelemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianmuseoilmasculine

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