mutus

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmu.tus]

Adjective

mutus

1. masculine plural of mutu

Latin

Etymology

From an imitative Proto-Indo-European root *mewH- related to Sanskrit मूक (mūka, “mute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.tus/, [ˈmuːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.tus/, [ˈmuːt̪us]

Adjective

mūtus (feminine mūta, neuter mūtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. mute, dumb, silent
2. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mūtus	mūta	mūtum		mūtī	mūtae	mūta
genitive	mūtī	mūtae	mūtī		mūtōrum	mūtārum	mūtōrum
dative	mūtō	mūtae	mūtō		mūtīs
accusative	mūtum	mūtam	mūtum		mūtōs	mūtās	mūta
ablative	mūtō	mūtā	mūtō		mūtīs
vocative	mūte	mūta	mūtum		mūtī	mūtae	mūta

Descendants

Descendants of mutus

• Aromanian: mut
• Asturian: mudu
• Catalan: mut
• English: mute
• Esperanto: muta
• French: muet
• Friulian: mut
• Galician: mudo
• German: Muta f
• Italian: muto
• Occitan: mut
• Piedmontese: mut
• Portuguese: mudo
• Romanian: mut
• Sardinian: mudu, mutu
• Sicilian: mudu, mutu
• Spanish: mudo
• → Proto-Brythonic: *mʉd
  • Middle Welsh: mut
    • Welsh: mud

References

• “mutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Anagrams

• sutum