mutulus

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Etruscan.[1]

Pronunciation

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mūtulus mūtulī
Genitive mūtulī mūtulōrum
Dative mūtulō mūtulīs
Accusative mūtulum mūtulōs
Ablative mūtulō mūtulīs
Vocative mūtule mūtulī

Descendants
  • Catalan: molló
  • English: modillion (through Italian), moellon (through French), mutule (borrowing)
  • French: modillon (through Italian), moellon, mutule (borrowing)
  • Italian: modiglione, mucchio, mutulo (borrowing)
  • Portuguese: mútulo (borrowing)
  • Romanian: muchie
  • Spanish: mojón

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
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “mutulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 139
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