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Latin
Etymology
Unknown; possibly Proto-Indo-European *mut- (“cut short”). Compare muticus (“docked”), Scottish Gaelic mutach (“short”), Ancient Greek μίτυλος (mítulos, “hornless”), μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “something cut up”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mutilus (feminine mutila, neuter mutilum); first/second-declension adjective
- mutilated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mutilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mutilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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