mutus

• IPA^(key): /mutus/

mutus

1. menopause

Kamus Banggai-Indonesia (Banggai-Indonesian Dictionary)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmu.tus]

mutus

1. masculine plural of mutu

From an imitative Proto-Indo-European root *mewH- related to Sanskrit मूक (mūka, “mute”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.t̪us]

mūtus (feminine mūta, neuter mūtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. mute, dumb, silent

   Ōra formīdō mūta claudit.

   The fear closes the mouths mute.

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 463:

     DĀVUS: Utinam aut hic surdus aut haec mūta facta sit!

     DAVUS: If only this [man] were deaf or this [woman] were mute!
     (The meaning in its comical context: if only he hadn’t listened or she hadn’t said anything.)

2. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “mutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mutus", 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)
• mutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• sutum