muttum

== Latin == === Etymology === Backformation from muttīre (“to mutter, murmur, talk quietly”). Of onomatopoeic origin; "make a mu-noise," possibly dating back to Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“lips, muzzle”); compare mūtus or mussō. See also Proto-Germanic *mūlō, English mutter. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmʊt.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmut.tum] === Noun === muttum n (genitive muttī); second declension A mutter, a grunt ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “muttum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "muttum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “muttum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.