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lute

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English

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A man playing a lute

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Etymology 1

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From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.

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lute (plural lutes)

  1. A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
    Coordinate term: guitar
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lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

  1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

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Etymology 2

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From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

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lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

  2. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
    • 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry‎[1], volume 1, page 41:
      He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
  3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  4. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
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lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

  1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 179:
      To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.
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Lower Sorbian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlutɛ/, [ˈlutə]

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lute

  1. inflection of luty:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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lute f

  1. lute

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  • Dutch: luit

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Middle Low German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”).

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lûte f

  1. A lute.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną.

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lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

  1. (intransitive) to bend over

Etymology 2

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From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).

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lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

  1. (transitive) to soak, treat in lye

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From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.

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  • luta (a-infinitive)
  • lùta, lùte (alternative spelling)

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lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

  1. to allot

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Polish

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lute

  1. inflection of luty:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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lute m inan

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty

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lute

  1. inflection of lutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Etymology

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From

  • /lu/: to burn
  • /te/: makes word an inanimate verb
  • /-w/ (suffix): third person suffix

Cognate with Munsee lóoteew (“it burns”).

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lute inan (plural luteyo, 3sg conjunct lutèk) (vii)

  1. (inanimate, intransitive) it burned, it is burned
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  • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “lute”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
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