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Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 封筒 (fūtō).
Noun
futo
- envelope
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian фут (fut), itself a borrowing of English foot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fōts. Compare German Fuß, Yiddish פֿוס (fus).
Pronunciation
Noun
futo (accusative singular futon, plural futoj, accusative plural futojn)
- foot (unit of measure equal to 12 inches)
- colo (“inch”); 1/12 foot
- jardo (“yard”); 3 feet
- mejlo (“mile”); 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet
Japanese
Romanization
futo
- Rōmaji transcription of ふと
Latin
Etymology
Apparent back-formation from confuto (“to refute, confound”).
Pronunciation
Verb
fūtō (present infinitive fūtāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems
- to argue
Conjugation
References
- futo 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)
- futo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Dictionary of Medieval Latin in British Sources