mulo

• mullo

Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).^[1]

mulo (plural mulos or muli)

1. (in Roma folklore) A vampire.

Both plural forms, mulos and muli, are rare.

• LUMO, omul, umol

From Latin mulus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

mulo (accusative singular mulon, plural muloj, accusative plural mulojn)

1. mule

• hino, azenĉevalo

mulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mulir

From Latin mulus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: mù‧lo

mulo m (plural muli, feminine mula)

1. mule

• bardotto

mūlō

1. dative/ablative singular of mūlus

Learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of muu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

mulo m (plural *mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural *mulas)

1. male mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)

   Synonym: muu

• Galician: mulo
• Portuguese: mulo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mulo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mulo, borrowed from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of mu.

• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

1. (rare) male mule

   Synonyms: mula, mu, muar

• Rarely used, since mula applies to both sexes.

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀅 (mua, “dead”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮𑁆𑀮- (-lla-), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀫𑀼𑀢 (*muta), from Sanskrit मृ॒त (mṛtá, “dead”).

mulo (feminine muli, plural mule)

1. dead, deceased

   O Thagar si mulo! Te trail but o Thagar! ― The King is dead! Long live the King!

mulo m (plural mule)

1. dead person, the deceased
2. (folklore) ghost

• → English: mulo
• → Limburgish: mol, moll

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mulo”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 593
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
• Milena Hübschmannová (May 2002) “Mulo”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎^[2], Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021

From Venetan, from Latin mūla.

• IPA^(key): /mûːlo/
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

mȗlo m inan (Cyrillic spelling му̑ло)

1. (regional) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock)

• “mulo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Latin mūlus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulo/ [ˈmu.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: mu‧lo

mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

1. mule

• “mulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024