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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: loot (in accents with yod-dropping)

Etymology 1

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud.

Noun

lute (plural lutes)

1. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

   Coordinate term: guitar

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• 2004. Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments. Murray Campbell, Clive A. Greated, Arnold Myers. Pg. 285.

Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

   • Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

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See also

Etymology 2

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

Noun

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

2. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
   • 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist) The History of Chemistry, Vol. 1, p. 41:

     He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.

3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
4. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

Translations

Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, page 179:

     To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

Further reading

• lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tuel, tuel, tule

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lut?/, [?lut?]

Adjective

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

lute f

1. lute

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: luit

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lute (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle Low German

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?t?/

Noun

lûte f

1. A lute.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *l?tan?.

Alternative forms

• luta (a-infinitive)

Verb

lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lut)

1. (intransitive) to bend over

Etymology 2

From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).

Alternative forms

• luta (a-infinitive)

Verb

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lut)

1. (transitive) to soak, treat in lye

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?n?.

Alternative forms

• luta (a-infinitive)
• lùta, lùte (alternative spelling)

Verb

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lut)

1. to allot

References

• “lute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• letu, ulet, ulte

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu.t?/

Adjective

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

lute m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty

Portuguese

Verb

lute

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lutar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of lutar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lutar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lutar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali ??? (jhu?), from Sanskrit ??? (j??a, “twisted hair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?u?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

jute (countable and uncountable, plural jutes)

1. The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
2. The plants from which this fibre is obtained.

Translations

French

Verb

jute

1. first-person singular present indicative of juter
2. third-person singular present indicative of juter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of juter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of juter
5. second-person singular imperative of juter

Anagrams

• téju

Ingrian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Finno-Ugric *jukta- (“to tell”). Compare Finnish juttu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jute/

Noun

jute (genitive juttiin, partitive jutatta)

1. talk, conversation
2. story, anecdote

Derived terms

• jutto

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Italian

Noun

jute f

1. plural of juta

Latin

Participle

j?te

1. vocative masculine singular of j?tus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English jute, from Bengali ??? (jhu?).

Noun

jute f (definite singular juta, indefinite plural juter, definite plural jutene)

1. jute

Etymology 2

Doublet of jutul and jotun.

Noun

jute m (definite singular juten, indefinite plural jutar, definite plural jutane)

1. alternative form of jutul
2. a fool
3. an excessively boastful person

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *eutaz (“Jute”). Compare Old Norse jótar.

Noun

jute c

1. Jutlander (person from Jutland)

Declension