mulus
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈmulus/ [ˈmu.lʊs]
- Rhymes: -ulus
- Syllabification: mu‧lus
Adjective
mulus
Further reading
- “mulus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Latin
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *musklos, *mukslos, probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean/Near Eastern substrate language. Likely cognate with Albanian mushk (“mule”), Ancient Greek μύκλος (múklos), μυχλός (mukhlós), and Old East Slavic мъскъ (mŭskŭ).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmuː.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmuː.lus]
Noun
mūlus m (genitive mūlī); second declension
- a mule (pack animal)
- (derogatory) ass, idiot
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mūlus | mūlī |
| genitive | mūlī | mūlōrum |
| dative | mūlō | mūlīs |
| accusative | mūlum | mūlōs |
| ablative | mūlō | mūlīs |
| vocative | mūle | mūlī |
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- iumenta (when used to pull carts)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: mul
- Emilian: móll
- Franco-Provençal: mul (archaic)
- Italian: mulo
- Occitan: mul
- Old Galician-Portuguese: muu
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: mulo
- Romanian: mul
- Sicilian: mulu
- Spanish: mulo
- Borrowings
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mūlus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 394
Further reading
- “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, 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
Noun
mulus
- predicative plural of mul