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Latin
Etymology
Maybe from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
Noun
mūtulus m (genitive mūtulī); second declension
- projecting shelf, bracket
- slab under corona of cornice
- stone or wood overhang
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
Borrowings:
Via a Vulgar Latin *mutulionem:
Via a contracted Vulgar Latin form *mutlus/*muclus:
References
- “mutulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mutulus 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)
- mutulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mutulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “mutulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin