mutulus

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mūtulus m (genitive mūtulī); second declension

1. projecting shelf, bracket
2. slab under corona of cornice
3. stone or wood overhang

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mūtulus	mūtulī
genitive	mūtulī	mūtulōrum
dative	mūtulō	mūtulīs
accusative	mūtulum	mūtulōs
ablative	mūtulō	mūtulīs
vocative	mūtule	mūtulī

Descendants

• Megleno-Romanian: muntur

Borrowings:

• → English: mutule
• → French: mutule
• → Italian: mutulo
• → Portuguese: mútulo

Via a Vulgar Latin *mutulionem:

• Catalan: molló
• Italian: modiglione
  • → English: modillon
  • → French: modillon
• Old French: moilon
  • French: moellon
    • → English: moelleon
• Spanish: mojón

Via a contracted Vulgar Latin form *mutlus/*muclus:

• Aromanian: muclji, muhlji
• Italian: mucchio
• Megleno-Romanian: mucľă
• Romanian: muchie

References

• “mutulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mutulus 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)
• mutulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mutulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mutulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin