mulus

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Adjective

mulus

  1. smooth

Further reading

Latin

mūlus (a mule)

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Italic *musklos, *mukslos, probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean/Near Eastern substrate language. Likely cognate with Albanian mushk (“mule”), Ancient Greek μύκλος (múklos), μυχλός (mukhlós), and Old East Slavic мъскъ (mŭskŭ).[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mūlus m (genitive mūlī); second declension

    1. a mule (pack animal)
    2. (derogatory) ass, idiot

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    Synonyms

    Hypernyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: mul
    • Emilian: móll
    • Franco-Provençal: mul (archaic)
    • Italian: mulo
    • Occitan: mul
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: muu
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: mulo
    • Romanian: mul
    • Sicilian: mulu
    • Spanish: mulo
    Borrowings
    • → Albanian: mulë
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *mʉl
    • → Esperanto: mulo
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *mūl (see there for further descendants)
    • → Proto-Slavic: *mulъ

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mūlus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 394

    Further reading

    • “mulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “mulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "mulus", 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)
    • “mulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Volapük

    Noun

    mulus

    1. predicative plural of mul