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lute

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English

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A man playing a lute

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Etymology 1

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Arabic عَادَ (ʕāda)
Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd)der.
Old Occitan laütbor.
Old French leüt
Middle French lutbor.
English lute

    From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.

    Noun

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    lute (plural lutes)

    1. A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
      Coordinate term: guitar
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    Verb

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    lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

    1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

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    Etymology 2

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    From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

    Noun

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    lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

    2. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
      • 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry‎[1], volume 1, page 41:
        He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
    3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
    4. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
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    Verb

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    lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

    1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
      • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 179:
        To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.
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    Lower Sorbian

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈlutɛ/, [ˈlutə]

    Adjective

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    lute

    1. inflection of luty:
      1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
      2. nominative/accusative plural

    Middle Dutch

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    Etymology

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    From Old French leut, probably from Old Occitan laüt.

    Noun

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    lute f

    1. lute

    Inflection

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    Weak feminine noun
    singular plural
    nominative lute luten
    accusative lute luten
    genitive lute, luten luten
    dative lute, luten luten

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    • Dutch: luit

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    Middle Low German

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”).

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    Noun

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    lûte f

    1. A lute.

    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną.

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    Verb

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    lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

    1. (intransitive) to bend over

    Etymology 2

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    From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).

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    lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

    1. (transitive) to soak, treat in lye

    Etymology 3

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    From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.

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    • luta (a-infinitive)
    • lùta, lùte (alternative spelling)

    Verb

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    lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

    1. to allot

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    Old English

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    lūte

    1. inflection of lūtan:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. singular present subjunctive

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    lute

    1. inflection of lūtan:
      1. second-person singular preterite indicative
      2. singular preterite subjunctive

    Polish

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    Adjective

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    lute

    1. inflection of luty:
      1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
      2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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    lute m inan

    1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty

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    Verb

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    lute

    1. inflection of lutar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

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    Etymology

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    From

    • /lu/: to burn
    • /te/: makes word an inanimate verb
    • /-w/ (suffix): third person suffix

    Cognate with Munsee lóoteew (“it burns”).

    Verb

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    lute (VII (inanimate-subject intransitive), third plural indicative luteyo, third singular conjunct lutèk)

    1. it burned, it is burned
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    References

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    • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “lute”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
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