mutuus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From mūt(ō) (“to exchange”) + -uus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.tu.us/, [ˈmuːt̪uʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.tu.us/, [ˈmuːt̪uːs]
Adjective edit
mūtuus (feminine mūtua, neuter mūtuum, adverb mūtuō); first/second-declension adjective
- borrowed, lent
- (by extension) in return, in exchange, mutual, reciprocal
- 1687, Sir Isaac Newton, “Lex III: Actioni contrariam semper et æqualem esse reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuo semper esse æquales et in partes contrarias dirigi.”, in Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica:
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mūtuus | mūtua | mūtuum | mūtuī | mūtuae | mūtua | |
| Genitive | mūtuī | mūtuae | mūtuī | mūtuōrum | mūtuārum | mūtuōrum | |
| Dative | mūtuō | mūtuō | mūtuīs | ||||
| Accusative | mūtuum | mūtuam | mūtuum | mūtuōs | mūtuās | mūtua | |
| Ablative | mūtuō | mūtuā | mūtuō | mūtuīs | |||
| Vocative | mūtue | mūtua | mūtuum | mūtuī | mūtuae | mūtua | |
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References edit
- “mutuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mutuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mutuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to borrow money from some one: pecuniam mutuari or sumere mutuam ab aliquo
- to lend money to some one: pecuniam alicui mutuam dare
- (ambiguous) the alternation of tides: aestus maritimi mutuo accedentes et recedentes (N. D. 2. 53. 132)
- to borrow money from some one: pecuniam mutuari or sumere mutuam ab aliquo