muto
Catalan
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.toː/
Audio (Classical) (file)
Etymology 1
Factive form, from moveō (“move, stir”).
Otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to exchange”).[1]
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.
2At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: mut, mutari
- Asturian: mudar
- → Asturian: mutar
- Catalan: mudar
- → Catalan: mutar
- Corsican: mutà
- Dalmatian: moitur
- → English: mutate, mute
- → French: muter
- Friulian: mudâ
- Italian: mutare
- Ladin: muder
- Occitan: mudar
- → Old English: bemutian, *mutian
- Middle English: mouten
- English: moult
- Middle English: mouten
- Old French: muer
- Old Portuguese: mudar
- → Portuguese: mutar
- Romanian: muta, mutare
- Romansch: midar, müdar
- Sicilian: mutari
- Spanish: mudar
- → Spanish: mutar
- Venetian: mudar, muar
Noun
mūtō m (genitive mūtōnis); third declension
- (vulgar) penis
dīceret haec animus ‘quid vīs tibi? numquid ego ā tē
magnō prognātum dēpōscō cōnsule cunnum
vēlātumque stolā, mea cum conferbuit īra?
- What if, in the words of his penis, his mind were to say to the man when he sees such troubles: 'What exactly do you want? Do I ever demand a cunt descended from a famous consul or veiled in a fancy gown when my passion grows hot?
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mūtō | mūtōnēs |
Genitive | mūtōnis | mūtōnum |
Dative | mūtōnī | mūtōnibus |
Accusative | mūtōnem | mūtōnēs |
Ablative | mūtōne | mūtōnibus |
Vocative | mūtō | mūtōnēs |
References
- muto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- muto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- muto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- muto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to keep one's countenance, remain impassive: vultum non mutare
- to alter one's views, intentions: consilium, sententiam mutare
- to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)
- to change one's clothes (and shoes): vestimenta (et calceos) mutare
- to naturalise oneself as a citizen of another country: civitatem mutare (Balb. 11. 27)
- to leave one's country (only used of exiles): solum vertere, mutare (Caecin. 34. 100)
- to change one's tactics: rationem belli gerendi mutare (Liv. 32. 31)
- to keep one's countenance, remain impassive: vultum non mutare
- muto in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 715
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