muter

English

Etymology

mute +‎ -er

Noun

muter (plural muters)

1. Something that mutes sound.

   The violinist often uses a muter when she practices.

Related terms

• mute

Anagrams

• turme

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūtāre, present active infinitive of mūtō. Doublet of muer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.te/

Verb

muter

1. to transfer
2. to mutate

Conjugation

Conjugation of muter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		mutant /my.tɑ̃/
past participle		muté /my.te/
infinitive
simple		muter
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		mutant /my.tɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mute /myt/	mutes /myt/	mute /myt/	mutons /my.tɔ̃/	mutez /my.te/	mutent /myt/
	imperfect	mutais /my.tɛ/	mutais /my.tɛ/	mutait /my.tɛ/	mutions /my.tjɔ̃/	mutiez /my.tje/	mutaient /my.tɛ/
	past historic2	mutai /my.tɛ/	mutas /my.ta/	muta /my.ta/	mutâmes /my.tam/	mutâtes /my.tat/	mutèrent /my.tɛʁ/
	future	muterai /my.tʁɛ/	muteras /my.tʁa/	mutera /my.tʁa/	muterons /my.tʁɔ̃/	muterez /my.tʁe/	muteront /my.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	muterais /my.tʁɛ/	muterais /my.tʁɛ/	muterait /my.tʁɛ/	muterions /my.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	muteriez /my.tə.ʁje/	muteraient /my.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	mute /myt/	mutes /myt/	mute /myt/	mutions /my.tjɔ̃/	mutiez /my.tje/	mutent /myt/
	imperfect2	mutasse /my.tas/	mutasses /my.tas/	mutât /my.ta/	mutassions /my.ta.sjɔ̃/	mutassiez /my.ta.sje/	mutassent /my.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mute /myt/	—	mutons /my.tɔ̃/	mutez /my.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• mutant
• mutation

Further reading

• “muter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• meurt

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Latin

Verb

mūter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of mūtō

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Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit मूत्र (mūtra, “urine”).

Noun

muter m (plural mutera)

1. urine

Derived terms

• mutrel