mudo

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mutus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: mu‧do

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. (Somontano) dumb, mute

References

• “mudo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuðo̝/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus.

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute

Noun

mudo m (plural mudos)

1. mute person

Etymology 2

15th century (muudo), from Vulgar Latin mōlūtus, alternative past participle of molō.

Alternative forms

• mundo

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. milled, ground

   Synonym: moído

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 99:

     todo ben muudo et pisado con huun pouco daçafran

     everything well ground and crushed with a little saffron

Etymology 3

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

References

• “mudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “muudo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “moer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mudo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: mù‧do

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudare

Anagrams

• dumo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -udu
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Noun

mudo m (plural mudos, feminine muda, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute (person unable to speak)

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas, not comparable)

1. mute
   1. (of a person) suffering from muteness

      Ele é mudo de nascença. ― He was born mute.

   2. not uttering sounds

      A TV está muda. ― The TV is mute.

2. of a letter that is written but not pronounced in a word; silent

   O K na palavra "know" é mudo. ― The K in the word "know" is silent.

Derived terms

• mudamente
• mudez

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar; "I change"

Further reading

• “mudo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫdo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǔːdo/
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

Noun

múdo n (Cyrillic spelling му́до)

1. (anatomy, formal) testicle

   Synonyms: jáje, sjȅmenīk, sȅmenīk, tèstis

2. (vulgar, usually in the plural) balls, nuts (bravery or courage)

   Nemaš muda to učiniti! ― You don't have the balls to do it!

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings

   imati muda ― to have balls/nuts (to do something)

   uhvatiti za muda ― to have someone by the balls

Declension

References

• “mudo” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: mu‧do

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute, dumb (not having the power of speech)

   Synonym: afónico

2. silent, speechless (not speaking)

   Synonyms: callado, silencioso

   cine mudo ― silent film

   • 1888, Roberto Payró, Novelas y fantasías, page 219:

     Por fin llegaron á la casa; subieron la escalera, ella del brazo de él, pero sin mirarse, sin decirse una palabra, mudos, como temerosos.

     Finally they arrived at the house; they climbed the stairs, she on his arm, but without looking at each other, without saying a word to each other, silent, as if afraid.

3. (astrology) being a water sign
4. (linguistics) plosive

   Synonym: oclusivo

5. (pronunciation) silent (not pronounced)

   h muda ― silent h

Derived terms

Noun

mudo m (plural mudos, feminine muda, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute (a person who does not have the power of speech)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

Further reading

• “mudo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh mudaw, from Proto-Brythonic *mʉdad, from Latin mūtō.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɨ̞dɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɔ/, /ˈmɪdɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞dɔ

Verb

mudo (first-person singular present mudaf)

1. to migrate, to emigrate
2. to move, to remove, to convey
3. (colloquial) to move house

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mudo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies