lute
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l(j)uːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /luːt/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: loot (in accents with yod-dropping)
Etymology 1
From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʿūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
Noun
lute (plural lutes)
- A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- Coordinate term: guitar
Derived terms
- angel lute
- archlute
- bowl lute
- German lute
- lute-backed
- lute guitar
- yoke lute
Related terms
- archlute
- lutanist, lutenist
- luter
- lutherie
- luthier
- lutist
Translations
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References
- 2004. Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments. Murray Campbell, Clive A. Greated, Arnold Myers. Pg. 285.
Verb
lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)
- To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748:
- Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
- 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 927360557:
- in the air , her new voice luting soft
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See also
- barbiton, barbitos
- guembri
- guqin
- mandola
- mandolin
- oud
- pipa
- rebab
- samisen, shamisen
- theorbo
Etymology 2
From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
Noun
lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)
- Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
- 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist) The History of Chemistry, Vol. 1, p. 41:
- He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
- 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist) The History of Chemistry, Vol. 1, p. 41:
- A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
Translations
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Verb
lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)
- To fix or fasten something with lute.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, page 179:
- To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, page 179:
Further reading
lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Tuel, tuel, tule
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlutɛ/, [ˈlutə]
Adjective
lute
- inflection of luty:
- neuter nominative/accusative singular
- nominative/accusative plural
Middle Dutch
Etymology
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Noun
lute f
- lute
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: luit
Further reading
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “lute (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle Low German
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʿūd, “wood”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːtə/
Noun
lûte f
- A lute.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną.
Alternative forms
- luta (a-infinitive)
Verb
lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
- (intransitive) to bend over
Etymology 2
From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).
Alternative forms
- luta (a-infinitive)
Verb
lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
- (transitive) to soak, treat in lye
Etymology 3
From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.
Alternative forms
- luta (a-infinitive)
- lùta, lùte (alternative spelling)
Verb
lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
- to allot
References
- “lute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- letu, ulet, ulte
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlu.tɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -utɛ
- Syllabification: lu‧te
Adjective
lute
- inflection of luty:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Noun
lute m inan
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty
Portuguese
Verb
lute
- inflection of lutar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative