mulus
Indonesian
Latin
mūlus (a mule)
Etymology
Proto-Italic *mukslos, *musk-, *muks-, probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean/Near Eastern substrate language, likely cognate with Ancient Greek μυχλός (mukhlós), μύκλος (múklos), μύκλα (múkla), Albanian mushk (“mule”) and Old East Slavic мъскъ (mŭskŭ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.lus/, [ˈmuːɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.lus/, [ˈmuːlus]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mūlus | mūlī |
| Genitive | mūlī | mūlōrum |
| Dative | mūlō | mūlīs |
| Accusative | mūlum | mūlōs |
| Ablative | mūlō | mūlīs |
| Vocative | mūle | mūlī |
Hypernyms
- iumenta (when used to pull carts)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: mul
- Franco-Provençal: mul (archaic)
- → Galician: mulo
- Italian: mulo
- Occitan: mul
- Old Galician-Portuguese: muu
- Portuguese: mu
- → Portuguese: mulo
- Romanian: mul
- Sicilian: mulu
- Spanish: mulo
- → Albanian: mulë
- → Proto-Brythonic: *mʉl
- → Esperanto: mulo
- → Proto-West Germanic: *mūl (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Slavic: *mulъ
References
- “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’s 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
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