mudo

See also: müdó, mudò, mudó, mũdo, and müdo

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mutus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/
• Syllabification: mu‧do
• Rhymes: -udo

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. (Somontano) dumb, mute

References

• “mudo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmu.ðu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmu.ðo]

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuðo/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus.

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute

Noun

mudo m (plural mudos)

1. mute person

Etymology 2

15th century (muudo), from Vulgar Latin mōlūtus, alternative past participle of molō.

Alternative forms

• mundo

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. milled, ground

   Synonym: moído

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 99:

     todo ben muudo et pisado con huun pouco daçafran

     everything well ground and crushed with a little saffron

Etymology 3

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mudo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “moer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mudo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: mù‧do

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudare

Anagrams

• dumo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.du/ [ˈmu.ðu]

• Rhymes: -udu
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Noun

mudo m (plural mudos, feminine muda, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute (person unable to speak)

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas, not comparable)

1. mute
   1. (of a person) suffering from muteness

      Ele é mudo de nascença. ― He was born mute.

   2. not uttering sounds

      A TV está muda. ― The TV is mute.

2. of a letter that is written but not pronounced in a word; silent

   O K na palavra "know" é mudo. ― The K in the word "know" is silent.

Derived terms

• mudamente
• mudez

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar; "I change"

Further reading

• “mudo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mudo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫdo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǔːdo/
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

Noun

múdo n (Cyrillic spelling му́до)

1. (anatomy, formal) testicle

   Synonyms: jáje, sjȅmenīk, sȅmenīk, tèstis

2. (vulgar, usually in the plural) balls, nuts (bravery or courage)

   Nemaš muda to učiniti! ― You don't have the balls to do it!

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings

   imati muda ― to have balls/nuts (to do something)

   uhvatiti za muda ― to have someone by the balls

Declension

Declension of mudo

	singular	plural
nominative	múdo	muda
genitive	muda	muda
dative	mudu	mudima
accusative	mudo	muda
vocative	mudo	muda
locative	mudu	mudima
instrumental	mudom	mudima

References

• “mudo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/ [ˈmu.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: mu‧do

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish mudo (c. 1140), from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Adjective

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute, dumb (not having the power of speech)

   Synonym: afónico

2. silent, speechless (not speaking)

   Synonyms: callado, silencioso

   cine mudo ― silent film

   • 1888, Roberto Payró, Novelas y fantasías, page 219:

     Por fin llegaron á la casa; subieron la escalera, ella del brazo de él, pero sin mirarse, sin decirse una palabra, mudos, como temerosos.

     Finally they arrived at the house; they climbed the stairs, she on his arm, but without looking at each other, without saying a word to each other, silent, as if afraid.

3. (astrology) being a water sign
4. (linguistics) plosive

   Synonym: oclusivo

5. (phonetics) silent (not pronounced)

   h muda ― silent h

Derived terms

• a la muda
• cine mudo
• cisne mudo
• mudamente
• mudez
• sordomudo
• tartamudo

Noun

mudo m (plural mudos, feminine muda, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute (a person who does not have the power of speech)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

Further reading

• “mudo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫdo. Cognate with Lower Sorbian mud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudɔ/
• Rhymes: -udɔ
• Hyphenation: mu‧do
• Syllabification: mu‧do

Noun

mudo n (relational adjective mudny or mudowy)

1. (anatomy) testicle (male sexual organ that, in man and certain other animals, is contained in the corresponding testicular or scrotal sac, where sperm and testosterone are produced)

Declension

Declension of mudo (neuter hard stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	mudo	mudźe	muda
genitive	muda	mudow	mudow
dative	mudu	mudomaj	mudam
accusative	mudo	mudźe	muda
instrumental	mudom	mudomaj	mudami
locative	mudźe	mudomaj	mudach
vocative	mudo	mudźe	muda

Derived terms

nouns

• mudnik m inan

References

• “mudo” in Soblex

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh mudaw, from Proto-Brythonic *mʉdad, from Latin mūtō.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɨ̞dɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɔ/, /ˈmɪdɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞dɔ

Verb

mudo (first-person singular present mudaf)

1. to migrate, to emigrate
2. to move, to remove, to convey

   Synonyms: cludo, symud, cario

3. (colloquial) to move house

   Synonym: symud tŷ

Conjugation

Conjugation of mudo (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	mudaf	mudi	muda	mudwn	mudwch	mudant	mudir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	mudwn	mudit	mudai	mudem	mudech	mudent	mudid
preterite	mudais	mudaist	mudodd	mudasom	mudasoch	mudasant	mudwyd
pluperfect	mudaswn	mudasit	mudasai	mudasem	mudasech	mudasent	mudasid, mudesid
present subjunctive	mudwyf	mudych	mudo	mudom	mudoch	mudont	muder
imperative	—	muda	muded	mudwn	mudwch	mudent	muder
verbal noun	mudo
verbal adjectives	mudedig mudadwy

Conjugation of mudo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	muda i, mudaf i	mudi di	mudith o/e/hi, mudiff e/hi	mudwn ni	mudwch chi	mudan nhw
conditional	mudwn i, mudswn i	mudet ti, mudset ti	mudai fo/fe/hi, mudsai fo/fe/hi	muden ni, mudsen ni	mudech chi, mudsech chi	muden nhw, mudsen nhw
preterite	mudais i, mudes i	mudaist ti, mudest ti	mudodd o/e/hi	mudon ni	mudoch chi	mudon nhw
imperative	—	muda	—	—	mudwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

adjective

• mudol (“mobile, migratory”)

nouns

• mudiad (“migration”)
• mudiant (“motion”)
• mudwr (“migrant”)

verbs

• allfudo, ymfudo (“to emigrate”)
• darfudo (“to convect”)
• mewnfudo (“to immigrate”)
• trawsfudo (“to transmigrate, to translate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of mudo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mudo	fudo	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “migrate”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[1], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “mudo”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “mudo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies