different between cute vs tute

English

Etymology

Aphetic form of acute, originally “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c.1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Adjective

cute (comparative cuter, superlative cutest)

1. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.

2. Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.

3. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
4. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.

5. Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)

   Synonyms: clever, shrewd

   • ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)

     Then Turpin being so very cute,

     He hid his money in his boot.

6. (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).

Usage notes

Though all the above usages are understood outside US & Canada, they are rarely used spontaneously except to characterise or parody American usage.

Synonyms

• (having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals): endearing
• (attractive or pleasing in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way): pretty

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: kjoet

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cute.

Adjective

cute

1. (youthful) cute, adorable
   • 2010, Kirsten Sonne Harild, Pony & Co. 4 - Lises forvandling, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     „De er sådan lidt tegneserieagtige, ikke? Ligesom shetlændere. Cute.

   • 2010, Jesper Staunstrup, At være fremmed..., BoD – Books on Demand (?ISBN), page 187

     Dyret er altså bare ikke cute... Det er en stor rottelignende dræber, der er altædende.

2. (youthful) sweet, attractive (of a person, especially a prospective partner)
   • 2012, Hanne-Vibeke Holst, Hjertets renhed, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Han er cute. Frederik var rimelig cute.

   • 2014, Ina Bruhn, Maja og Dancer: Hestene på Ponygården 3, Rosinante & Co (?ISBN)

     Han hedder Elvin. Er det ikke et totalt cute navn?

   • 2014, Dennis Jürgensen, Hår(d), Tellerup A/S (?ISBN)

     Hun var cute, det var hun faktisk, og jeg prøvede desperat ikke at tænke på min isse.

   • 2013, Anders Haahr Rasmussen, Modellen: #dayinthelife, Art People (?ISBN)

     Josephine Skriver har tidligere haft problemer med sit runde, cute ansigt og har det for så vidt stadigvæk.

Synonyms

• (adorable): nuttet, kær

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

Noun

cute f (plural cuti)

1. (anatomy) Cutis, skin (of a person)

   Synonym: pelle

Derived terms

• cutaneo

Latin

Noun

cute

1. ablative singular of cutis

Middle English

Noun

cute

1. Alternative form of cote (“coot”)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin c?tem, accusative of c?s. The expected result would have been *coate in Romanian, but may have been influenced by cu?it and ascu?i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku.te/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: cu?te

Noun

cute f (plural cute)

1. whetstone

Synonyms

• gresie

References

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of tutorial

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: toot (in dialects with yod-dropping)

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of tutorial.
   • 1991 Hazel Holt, A lot to ask: a life of Barbara Pym, Dutton, p29

     Tute [tutorial] in the morning. Morrison couldn't think of much to say to us.'

   • 2002 Michael Singh, Worlds of learning: globalisation and multicultural education, Common Ground, p35

     The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.

   • 2009 Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein, Genres in the Internet: issues in the theory of genre, John Benjamins Publishing Company, p127

     Many online genres - like the homless blog, the electronic petition, the review, and the "tute" [...] are often public

Etymology 2

Clipping of institute

Alternative forms

• 'tute (institute)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: toot (in dialects with yod-dropping)

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of institute.

Etymology 3

From Spanish tute, previously from Italian tutti.

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

1. A trick-taking card game, originally from Italy

Anagrams

• et tu

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tute/
• Hyphenation: tu?te
• Rhymes: -ute
• Audio:

Adverb

tute

1. entirely; wholly; utterly; completely; totally

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.te/
• Hyphenation: tu?te

Noun

tute f

1. plural of tuta

Latin

Etymology 1

From t? +? te.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.te/, [?t?u?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.te/, [?t?u?t??]

Pronoun

t?te

1. you yourself

Derived terms

• t?temet

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.te?/, [?t?u?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.te/, [?t?u?t??]

Adverb

t?t? (comparative t?tius, superlative t?tissim?)

1. safely, securely, in safety, without danger

See also

• tueor

References

• tute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tu.t?]
• Hyphenation: tu?te

Verb

tute

1. (transitive) to hit

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

tute (imperative tut, present tense tuter, simple past and past participle tuta or tutet, present participle tutende)

1. to toot, hoot, honk, howl, blow (e.g. a horn)

Related terms

• tut (noun)

References

• “tute” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tute/, [?t?u.t?e]

Noun

tute m (plural tutes)

1. (card games) tute (card game)
2. (card games) A trick-taking play in the same game, combining four kings or four knights
3. (informal) strife

Tocharian B

Etymology

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Adjective

tute

1. yellow

Venetian

Adjective

tute

1. feminine plural of tuto

West Flemish

Etymology

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Noun

tute f (plural tuutn, diminutive tuutje)

1. dummy, pacifier

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• tut?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tu?t?]
• Hyphenation: tu?te

Noun

tute f

1. female equivalent of tut