muta

muta (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) Alternative form of mootah (“marijuana”)

• persona muta

• Atum, Tuam, Tuma

muta

1. three

muta

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

muta

1. rheum in the eyes; gound

From Italian muto, German Muta, English mute, all from Latin mūtus (“mute, silent”). Compare French muet, Portuguese and Spanish mudo, Catalan and Romanian mut.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈmuta]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: mu‧ta

muta (accusative singular mutan, plural mutaj, accusative plural mutajn)

1. mute, speechless

• muteco
• muti

• silenta

From Proto-Finnic *muta, from Proto-Uralic *muďa. Cognate with Estonian muda, Veps muda, Karelian muta, Erzya мода (moda).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutɑ/, [ˈmut̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -utɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧ta

muta

1. mire, mud; decaying organic matter in the bottom of a lake etc.

• multa
• musta

• “muta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• matu, maut, tuma

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muta

1. third-person singular past historic of muter

• muât

muta

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *muta. Cognates include Finnish muta and Estonian muda.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmutɑ/, [ˈmutɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmutɑ/, [ˈmud̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -utɑ
• Hyphenation: mu‧ta

muta

1. mud, mire (decaying matter at the bottom of a river or lake)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 315

muta m (genitive singular muta, nominative plural mutaí)

1. Alternative form of buta (“butt; thick end, stock; butte; stocky person”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: mù‧ta

Deverbal from mutare (“to change”) +‎ -a.

muta f (plural mute)

1. (uncommon) change (act of changing; act of replacing)

   Synonym: cambio

2. (zoology) moult, moulting, molt, shedding, ecdysis
3. (military) surveillance shift
4. (by extension) replacement

   Synonym: cambio

5. (clothing) wetsuit
6. (poetry, archaic) each of the two tercets in a Petrarchan sonnet

   Hypernym: terzina

• Muta (biologia) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Muta subacquea on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• muta¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French meute, from Middle French meute, from Old French meute, muete, from Vulgar Latin *movita, feminine of *movitus, from the perfect passive participle form of moveō (“to move”).

muta f (plural mute)

1. (hunting) pack (of hounds)
2. (by extension) a group of horses attached to a coach

• cane
• cavallo

• muta² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Of Germanic origin.

muta f (plural mute)

1. (historical) tax, duty

   Synonym: dazio

2. (historical, by extension) customs

   Synonym: dogana

• muta³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unknown.

muta f (plural mute)

1. (numismatics) the Piedmontese lira in the final years of the 18^th century

   Hypernym: lira

• muta⁴ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muta f sg

1. feminine singular of muto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muta

1. inflection of mutare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See mut.

muta f (plural mutans)

1. (Gherdëina) girl

• möta (Badiot)
• beza, tousa (Fascian)

• (antonym(s) of “age”): ëila
• (antonym(s) of “gender”): mut

mūtā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mūtō

• muta 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)

muta f (definite singular muta, indefinite plural muter or mutor, definite plural mutene or mutone)

1. definite singular of mute
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of mute

muta (present tense mutar, past tense muta, past participle muta, passive infinitive mutast, present participle mutande, imperative muta/mut)

1. alternative form of mute

Compare Classical Nahuatl motla (“to throw a rock/rocks at s.th./s.o.”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈmuta/

-muta

1. (transitive) to throw

   kimutak ne iashish

   He/she threw his/her urine

muta

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin mūtāre, present active infinitive of mūtō.

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a muta (third-person singular present mută, past participle mutat) 1st conj.

1. to move, shift
2. (reflexive) to move to, relocate

• strămuta

• mișca

muta f sg

1. feminine singular of mutu

muta

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Swedish múta, from Old Norse múta. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk mute f

• Rhymes: -²ʉːta

muta c

1. a bribe

muta (present mutar, preterite mutade, supine mutat, imperative muta)

1. to bribe

• mutkolv

• bestickning
• korruption

• muta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• muta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• muta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• mota — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

From Proto-Philippine *mutaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mutəq (“gummy secretion of the eyes”). Compare Ilocano muta, Bikol Central muta, Agutaynen metek, Cebuano muta, Hiligaynon muta, Northern Kankanay bota, Tboli mutok, Malagasy moty, and Nias mutõ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutaʔ/, [ˈmu.tɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: mu‧ta

mutà (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜆ)

1. gound; mote; rheum or gummy secretion in the eyes

From elision of /h/ from mutha.

• IPA^(key): /muˈta/, [mʊˈta]
• Hyphenation: mu‧ta

mutá (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜆ)

1. Alternative spelling of mutha (“a kind of grass”)

• “muta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utaq, compare Malay muntah.

muta

1. to vomit

From Proto-Finnic *muta.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmutɑ/, [ˈmutɑ]
• Rhymes: -utɑ
• Hyphenation: mu‧ta

muta

1. mud

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “muta”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn