mutilus

Latin

Etymology

Unknown; possibly Proto-Indo-European *mut- (“cut short”). Compare muticus (“docked”), Scottish Gaelic mutach (“short”), Ancient Greek μίτυλος (mítulos, “hornless”), μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “something cut up”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ti.lus/, [ˈmʊt̪ɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ti.lus/, [ˈmuːt̪ilus]

Adjective

mutilus (feminine mutila, neuter mutilum); first/second-declension adjective

1. mutilated

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mutilus	mutila	mutilum		mutilī	mutilae	mutila
Genitive	mutilī	mutilae	mutilī		mutilōrum	mutilārum	mutilōrum
Dative	mutilō		mutilō		mutilīs
Accusative	mutilum	mutilam	mutilum		mutilōs	mutilās	mutila
Ablative	mutilō	mutilā	mutilō		mutilīs
Vocative	mutile	mutila	mutilum		mutilī	mutilae	mutila

Derived terms

• mutilitās
• mutilō

Descendants

• French: moche
• Italian: mozzo
• Portuguese: mocho
• Spanish: mocho
  • → Catalan: motxo

References

• “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mutilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mutilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mutilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Anagrams

• ultimus