mugient

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mugiens, present participle of mugire (“to bellow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmjuːd͡ʒi.ənt/, /ˈmjuːd͡ʒənt/

Adjective

mugient (comparative more mugient, superlative most mugient)

  1. (obsolete) lowing; bellowing
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      That a bittern maketh that mugient noise, or as we term it, bumping, by putting its bill into a reed, as most believe […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mugient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

mūgient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of mūgiō
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