mutus

Banggai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mutus/

Noun

mutus

1. menopause

Further reading

Kamus Banggai-Indonesia (Banggai-Indonesian Dictionary)

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mutus

1. masculine plural of mutu

Latin

Etymology

From an imitative Proto-Indo-European root *mewH- related to Sanskrit मूक (mūka, “mute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.tus]

Adjective

mūtus (feminine mūta, neuter mūtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. mute, dumb, silent, unable to speak, inarticulate

   Ōra formīdō mūta claudit.

   The fear closes the mouths mute.

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 463:

     DĀVUS: Utinam aut hic surdus aut haec mūta facta sit!

     DAVUS: If only this [man] were deaf or this [woman] were mute!
     (The meaning in its comical context: if only he hadn’t listened or she hadn’t said anything.)

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.3:

     Magnō malō ūllā vōce interpellātum silentium luitur. Nocte tōtā ieiūnī mūtīque perstant.

     (The slaves who must stand near the master during a long meal:) [Any slave] breaking the silence with the slightest sound is made to suffer with a harsh punishment. All night long, hungry and mute, they remain standing.

2. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mūtus	mūta	mūtum		mūtī	mūtae	mūta
genitive	mūtī	mūtae	mūtī		mūtōrum	mūtārum	mūtōrum
dative	mūtō	mūtae	mūtō		mūtīs
accusative	mūtum	mūtam	mūtum		mūtōs	mūtās	mūta
ablative	mūtō	mūtā	mūtō		mūtīs
vocative	mūte	mūta	mūtum		mūtī	mūtae	mūta

Descendants

Descendants

• Aromanian: mut
• Asturian: mudu
• Catalan: mut
• English: mute
• Esperanto: muta
• French: muet
• Friulian: mut
• Galician: mudo
• German: Muta f
• Italian: muto
• Occitan: mut
• Piedmontese: mut
• Portuguese: mudo
• Romanian: mut
  • → Hungarian: mutuj
• Sardinian: mudu, mutu
• Sicilian: mudu, mutu
• Spanish: mudo
• → Proto-Brythonic: *mʉd
  • Middle Welsh: mut
    • Welsh: mud

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, 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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mūtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398

Anagrams

• sutum