mulus

Indonesian

Adjective

mulus

1. 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.lus/, [ˈmuːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lus/, [ˈmuːlus]

Noun

mūlus m (genitive mūlī); second declension

1. a mule (pack animal)
2. (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

• Catalan: mul
• Franco-Provençal: mul (archaic)
• → Galician: mulo
• Italian: mulo
• Occitan: mul
• Old Galician-Portuguese: muu
  • Portuguese: mu
• → Portuguese: mulo
• Romanian: mul
• Sicilian: mulu
• Spanish: mulo
• → Albanian: mulë
• → Proto-Brythonic: *mʉl
  • Middle Welsh: mul
    • Welsh: mul
• → Esperanto: mulo
• → Proto-West Germanic: *mūl (see there for further descendants)
• → 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

1. predicative plural of mul