mutulus

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Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Etruscan.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mūtulus m (genitive mūtulī); second declension

  1. projecting shelf, bracket
  2. slab under corona of cornice
  3. stone or wood overhang

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mūtulus mūtulī
genitive mūtulī mūtulōrum
dative mūtulō mūtulīs
accusative mūtulum mūtulōs
ablative mūtulō mūtulīs
vocative mūtule mūtulī

Descendants

  • Megleno-Romanian: muntur

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
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “mutulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 139