mussitate

== English == === Etymology === From Latin mussitō (“to keep quiet; to murmur, mutter”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix), from mussō (“to be silent and respectful; to say in a soft voice, murmur”) (perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mur- (“to murmur”), originally imitative) + -itō (frequentative suffix). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmʌsɪteɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmʌsɪˌteɪt/ Hyphenation: mus‧sit‧ate === Verb === mussitate (third-person singular simple present mussitates, present participle mussitating, simple past and past participle mussitated) (obsolete except literary, poetic) (transitive) To say (words, etc.) indistinctly; to mutter. (intransitive) To talk indistinctly; to mutter. [from early 17th c.] ==== Related terms ==== mussitant (obsolete, rare) mussitation (chiefly archaic or obsolete) ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === eustatism, meatsuits == Latin == === Participle === mussitāte vocative masculine singular of mussitātus