lute

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /l(j)uːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /luːt/
• (Wales, Canada) IPA^(key): /lɪu̯t/

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• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: loot (in accents with yod-dropping)

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.

lute (plural lutes)

1. A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

   Coordinate term: guitar

• 2004. Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments. Murray Campbell, Clive A. Greated, Arnold Myers. Pg. 285.

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

   • 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     in the air , her new voice luting soft

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

1. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
   • 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry‎, volume 1, page 41:

     He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.

2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
3. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 179:

     To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

• lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Tuel, tuel, tule

• IPA^(key): /ˈlutɛ/, [ˈlutə]

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

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lute f

1. lute

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• Dutch: luit

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lute (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”).

• IPA^(key): /luːtə/

lûte f

1. A lute.

From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną.

• luta (a-infinitive)

lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

1. (intransitive) to bend over

From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).

• luta (a-infinitive)

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

1. (transitive) to soak, treat in lye

From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.

• luta (a-infinitive)
• lùta, lùte (alternative spelling)

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)

1. to allot

• “lute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• letu, ulet, ulte

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tɛ/

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• Rhymes: -utɛ
• Syllabification: lu‧te

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

lute m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty

lute

1. inflection of lutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative