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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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology

From Middle English late, lat, from Old English læt (“slow; slack, lax, negligent; late”), from Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”).

Adjective

late (comparative later, superlative latest)

1. Near the end of a period of time.

2. Specifically, near the end of the day.

3. (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.

4. Not arriving until after an expected time.

5. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
6. (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Often used with "the"; see usage notes.)
7. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
8. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
9. (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.

Usage notes

• (deceased): Late in this sense is unusual among English adjectives in that it qualifies named individuals (in phrases like the late Mary) without creating a contrast with another Mary who is not late. Contrast hungry: a phrase like the hungry Mary is usually only used if another Mary is under discussion who is not hungry.

Translations

Noun

late (plural lates)

1. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.

Antonyms

• early

Adverb

late (comparative later, superlative latest)

1. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.

2. Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.

3. Not long ago; just now.

Synonyms

• (past a designated time): belatedly; see also Thesaurus:belatedly
• (formerly): erenow; see also Thesaurus:formerly
• (not long ago): freshly; see also Thesaurus:recently

Translations

Derived terms

References

• 2009 April 3, Peter T. Daniels, "Re: Has 'late' split up into a pair of homonyms?", message-ID <bdb13686-a6e4-43cd-8445-efe353365394@l13g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, alt.usage.english and sci.lang, Usenet.

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., leat, tael, tale, teal, tela

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?t?/

Adjective

late

1. Inflected form of laat

Verb

late

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laten

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.te/

Adjective

late

1. feminine plural of lato

Karelian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish lattia.

Noun

late (genitive lattien, partitive latettu)

1. floor

Latin

Adverb

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

1. broadly, widely
2. extensively
3. far and wide, everywhere
4. lavishly, to excess

Related terms

• l?tus

References

• late in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• late in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English læt, from Proto-West Germanic *lat.

Alternative forms

• laite, latte, lete, leate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?t/

Adjective

late

1. slow, sluggish, reluctant.

Descendants

• English: late
• Yola: laate

References

• “l?t(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English late.

Alternative forms

• lata, laite, latte, lete, læte, leate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?t(?)/

Adverb

late

1. slowly, reluctantly

Descendants

• English: late
• Yola: laate

References

• “l?t(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse lát (“conduct, demeanour, voice, sound”, literally “let, letting, loss”) (from Proto-Germanic *l?tij? (“behaviour”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?id-, *l?y- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Middle Low German l?t (“outward appearance, gesture, manner”), Old English l?tan (“to let”). More at let.

Noun

late

1. Manner; behaviour; outward appearance or aspect.
2. A sound; voice.
   • c 1275-1499, King Alexander

     Than have we liking to lithe the lates of the foules.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

late

1. definite singular and plural of lat

Etymology 2

From Old Norse láta

Verb

late (imperative lat, present tense later, passive lates, simple past lot, past participle latt, present participle latende)

1. to seem, appear
2. (also late som) to pretend

Derived terms

• årelate

References

• “late” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²l??t?/

Adjective

late

1. inflection of lat:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

Verb

late (present tense lèt, past tense lét, past participle late, passive infinitive latast, present participle latande, imperative lat)

1. Alternative form of la

Etymology 3

From Old Norse láta

Alternative forms

• lata

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²l??t?/

Verb

late (present tense lèt, past tense lét, past participle late, passive infinitive latast, present participle latande, imperative lat)

1. to seem, appear
2. (also late som) to pretend

Derived terms

• årelate

References

• “late” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

Adverbial form of læt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.te/

Adverb

late

1. late

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?la.t??i/

Verb

late

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of latir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of latir

Spanish

Verb

late

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of latir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of latir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of latir.

Swedish

Adjective

late

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of lat.

Anagrams

• leta