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mulo

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See also: múló

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Romani mulo (dead (man)).[1]

Noun

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mulo (plural mulos or muli)

  1. (in Roma folklore) A vampire.

Usage notes

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Both plural forms, mulos and muli, are rare.

References

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  1. ^ Ronald Lee, Romani Dictionary: Kalderash - English

Anagrams

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Latin mulus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmulo]
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

Noun

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mulo (accusative singular mulon, plural muloj, accusative plural mulojn)

  1. mule

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Galician

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Verb

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mulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mulir

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin mulus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: mù‧lo

Noun

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mulo m (plural muli, feminine mula)

  1. mule

See also

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Latin

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Noun

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mūlō

  1. dative/ablative singular of mūlus

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of muu.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈmulo/
    • Rhymes: -ulo
    • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

    Noun

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    mulo m (plural *mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural *mulas)

    1. male mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
      Synonym: muu

    Descendants

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    • Galician: mulo
    • Portuguese: mulo

    References

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    • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “mulo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mulo, borrowed from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of mu.

      Pronunciation

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      • Rhymes: -ulu
      • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

      Noun

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      mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

      1. (rare) male mule
        Synonyms: mula, mu, muar

      Usage notes

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      • Rarely used, since mula applies to both sexes.

      Romani

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Ashokan Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit मृत (mṛta), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥tás (dead), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (dead), from *mer- (to die).

      Adjective

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      mulo (feminine muli, plural mule)

      1. dead, deceased
        O Thagar si mulo! Te trail but o Thagar!The King is dead! Long live the King!

      Noun

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      mulo m (plural mule)

      1. dead person, the deceased
      2. (folklore) ghost

      Descendants

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      References

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      • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mulo”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 593
      • Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
      • Milena Hübschmannová (2002 May) “Mulo”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database[2], Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021

      Serbo-Croatian

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      Etymology

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      From Venetan, from Latin mūla.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /mûːlo/
      • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

      Noun

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      mȗlo m (Cyrillic spelling му̑ло)

      1. (regional) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock)

      Declension

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      References

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      • mulo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

      Spanish

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      Etymology

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      From Latin mūlus.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈmulo/ [ˈmu.lo]
      • Rhymes: -ulo
      • Syllabification: mu‧lo

      Noun

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      mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

      1. mule

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