mutilus

Latin

Etymology

    Unknown;[1] possibly Proto-Indo-European *mut- (“cut short”). Compare muticus (“docked”), Scottish Gaelic mutach (“short”), Ancient Greek μίτυλος (mítulos, “hornless”), μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “something cut up”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    mutilus (feminine mutila, neuter mutilum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. mutilated

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • French: moche
    • Italian: mozzo
    • Portuguese: mocho
    • Spanish: mocho

    References

    • “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “mutilus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “mutilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Self-published: Xlibris, →ISBN
    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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