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mute umte mtue tmue utme tume muet umet meut emut uemt eumt mteu tmeu metu emtu temu etmu utem tuem uetm eutm teum etum

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Definitions and meaning of mute

mute

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: myo͞ot, IPA^(key): /mjuːt/, /mɪu̯t/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: moot (in some dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

Adjective

mute (comparative muter, superlative mutest)

1. Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]
2. Silent; not making a sound. [from 15th c.]
   • 1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of Die Jüdin von Toledo),^[1] Messner, page 178:

     “ […] The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!”

3. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
4. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

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Translations

Noun

mute (plural mutes)

1. (phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, stop

2. (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; (John Dryden)

     As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:

3. A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]
4. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant. [from 18th c.]
5. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine. [from 18th c.]
6. An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
7. A mute swan.

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Translations

Verb

mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)

1. (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
2. (transitive) To turn off the sound of.

   Antonym: unmute

Derived terms

• muter

Translations

See also

• dumb

Etymology 2

From Middle French muetir, probably a shortened form of esmeutir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

Verb

mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)

1. (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate. [from 15th c.]

Noun

mute (plural mutes)

1. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin mutare (“to change”).

Verb

mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)

1. (transitive) To cast off; to moult.

Esperanto

Etymology

From muta +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmute]
• Audio:
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: mu‧te

Adverb

mute

1. mutely, speechlessly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myt/

Verb

mute

1. inflection of muter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• émut, émût, meut, muet

Galician

Verb

mute

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.te/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: mù‧te

Adjective

mute

1. feminine plural of muto

Noun

mute f pl

1. plural of muta

Latgalian

Etymology

Cognates include Latvian mute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmutʲæ]
• Hyphenation: mu‧te

Noun

mute f

1. mouth

Declension

References

• A. Andronov, L. Leikuma (2008) Latgalīšu-Latvīšu-Krīvu sarunu vuordineica, Lvava, →ISBN, page 172

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.te/, [ˈmuːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.te/, [ˈmuːt̪e]

Adjective

mūte

1. vocative masculine singular of mūtus

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mnt-, *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”), Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”) (English mouth, German Mund, Dutch mond, Swedish mun, Icelandic munnur, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mutɛ]

Noun

mute f (5th declension)

1. (anatomy) mouth (orifice for ingesting food)

   mutes orgāni ― mouth organs

   aizvērt muti ― to close one's mouth

   plātīt muti ― to keep one's mouth open, to gape

   turēt mutē konfekti ― to have candy in one's mouth

   mutes kaktiņi ― corners of the mouth

   mutes harmonikas ― harmonica (musical instrument)

2. orifice, opening, entrance

   krāsns mute ― the mouth of the oven

3. face

   mazgāt muti ― to wash one's mouth (= face)

   bērni ar netīrām mutēm ― children with dirty mouths (= faces)

4. kiss

   dot mutes ― to give mouths (= kisses)

Declension

Derived terms

• mutīgs
• mutisks

Middle English

Adjective

mute

1. Alternative form of muet

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmutɛ]
• Hyphenation: mu‧te

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

mute

1. (transitive) to feel sorry for
2. (transitive) to complain about

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

mute

1. (intransitive) to produce the sound jmm

Conjugation

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 183
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), pages 113, 129

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múta from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (of unclear origin). Compare Swedish muta.

Noun

mute f (definite singular muta, indefinite plural muter, definite plural mutene)

1. bribe
2. secrecy

Verb

mute (present tense mutar, past tense muta, past participle muta, passive infinitive mutast, present participle mutande, imperative mute/mut)

1. (transitive) to bribe
2. (transitive) to hide, conceal

Etymology 2

From German muten.

Verb

mute (present tense mutar, past tense muta, past participle muta, passive infinitive mutast, present participle mutande, imperative mute/mut)

1. (mining) to apply for a mining permit

References

• “mute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

mute

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmute]

Verb

mute

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of muta

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mute (Cyrillic spelling муте)

1. third-person plural present indicative of mutiti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmute/ [ˈmu.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: mu‧te

Verb

mute

1. inflection of mutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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