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Pronunciation
Adjective
mutus
- masculine plural of mutu
Latin
Etymology
From an imitative Proto-Indo-European root *mewH- related to Sanskrit मूक (mūka, “mute”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mūtus (feminine mūta, neuter mūtum); first/second-declension adjective
- mute, dumb, silent
- (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “mutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mutus 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)
- mutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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