mulus

Indonesian

Adjective

mulus

smooth

Latin

mūlus (a mule)

Etymology

Proto-Italic *mukslos, *musk-, *muks-, probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean/Near Eastern substrate language, likely cognate with Ancient Greek μυχλός (mukhlós), μύκλος (múklos), μύκλα (múkla), Albanian mushk (“mule”) and Old East Slavic мъскъ (mŭskŭ).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.lus/, [ˈmuːɫ̪ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lus/, [ˈmuːlus]
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Noun

mūlus m (genitive mūlī); second declension

a mule (pack animal)
(derogatory) ass, idiot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūlus	mūlī
Genitive	mūlī	mūlōrum
Dative	mūlō	mūlīs
Accusative	mūlum	mūlōs
Ablative	mūlō	mūlīs
Vocative	mūle	mūlī

Synonyms

(ass, idiot): asinus
iumentum (when used to pull carts)

Hypernyms

iumenta (when used to pull carts)

Derived terms

mūla
mūlīnus
mūliō
mūliōnicus
mūlocisiārius
mūlomedicīna
mūlomedicus
mūtuum mūlī scabunt

Descendants

Aragonese: mula
Catalan: mul
French: mule
Galician: mula
Italian: mulo
Occitan: mul
Portuguese: mu, → mulo
Romanian: mul
Sicilian: mulu
Spanish: mulo
→ Albanian: mulë
→ Proto-Brythonic: *mʉl
- Middle Welsh: mul
  - Welsh: mul
→ Old English: mūl
- Middle English: mule
  - English: mule
    - → Irish: miúil
→ Esperanto: mulo
→ Proto-Slavic: *mulъ
- Czech: mula
- Lower Sorbian: mul
- Polish: muł
- Russian: мул (mul)
- Serbo-Croatian: mȕla

References

“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’s 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