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Latin
Etymology
Backformation from muttīre (“to mutter, murmur, talk quietly”). Of onomatopoeic origin; "make a mu-noise," possibly dating back to Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“lips, muzzle”); compare mūtus or mussō. See also Proto-Germanic *mūlō, English mutter.
Pronunciation
Noun
muttum n (genitive muttī); second declension
- A mutter, a grunt
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “muttum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- muttum 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)
- muttum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.