mulus

mulus

1. smooth

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).

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

mūlus m (genitive mūlī); second declension

1. a mule (pack animal)
2. (derogatory) ass, idiot

Second-declension noun.

• (ass, idiot): asinus
• iumentum (when used to pull carts)

• iumenta (when used to pull carts)

• “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.

mulus

1. predicative plural of mul