mutilus

Latin

Etymology

Unknown[1]; possibly Proto-Indo-European *mut (“cut short”). Compare muticus (“docked”), Scottish Gaelic mutach (“short”), Ancient Greek μίτυλος (mítulos, “hornless”), μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “something cut up”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.ti.lus/, [ˈmʊt̪ɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.ti.lus/, [ˈmuːt̪ilus]

Adjective

mutilus (feminine mutila, neuter mutilum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. mutilated

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mutilus mutila mutilum mutilī mutilae mutila
Genitive mutilī mutilae mutilī mutilōrum mutilārum mutilōrum
Dative mutilō mutilō mutilīs
Accusative mutilum mutilam mutilum mutilōs mutilās mutila
Ablative mutilō mutilā mutilō mutilīs
Vocative mutile mutila mutilum mutilī mutilae mutila

Derived terms

Descendants
  • French: moche
  • Italian: mozzo
  • Portuguese: mocho
  • Spanish: mocho

References
  • “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mutilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “mutilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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