mulus

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

Adjective

mulus

  1. smooth

Latin

mūlus (a mule)

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *mukslos, *musk-, *muks-, probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean/Near Eastern substrate language, likely cognate with Ancient Greek μυχλός (mukhlós), μύκλος (múklos), μύκλα (múkla), Albanian mushk (mule) and Old East Slavic мъскъ (mŭskŭ).[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mūlus m (genitive mūlī); second declension

    1. a mule (pack animal)
    2. (derogatory) ass, idiot

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative mūlus mūlī
    genitive mūlī mūlōrum
    dative mūlō mūlīs
    accusative mūlum mūlōs
    ablative mūlō mūlīs
    vocative mūle mūlī

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    Descendants

    • Catalan: mul
    • Franco-Provençal: mul (archaic)
    • Italian: mulo
    • Occitan: mul
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: muu
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: mulo
    • Romanian: mul
    • Sicilian: mulu
    • Spanish: mulo
    • Albanian: mulë
    • Proto-Brythonic: *mʉl
    • Esperanto: mulo
    • Proto-West Germanic: *mūl (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Slavic: *mulъ

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mūlus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 394

    Further reading

    • mulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • mulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "mulus", 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)
    • mulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Volapük

    Noun

    mulus

    1. predicative plural of mul