mudo

See also: mudò, mudó, and mũdo

Asturian

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

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Catalan

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of mudar

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuðo̝/

Adjective

mudo m (feminine singular 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuðo̝/

Adjective

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

1. milled, ground
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 99:

     todo ben muudo et pisado con huun pouco daçafran

     everything well grinded and grounded with a little saffron

   Synonym: moído

References

• “mudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “muudo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mudo” in Santamarina, Antón (dir.), Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja: Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (v 4.0). Santiago: ILG.
• “mudo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudare

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ðu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.du/
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

Adjective

mudo m (feminine singular 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

• mudez

Verb

mudo

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of mudar

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/, [ˈmuðo]
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Adjective

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

1. mute, dumb

Noun

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

1. mute

Derived terms

• mudez
• sordomudo

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

mudo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mudar.

Further reading

• “mudo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.