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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

Etymology

Contraction of utility vehicle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo?ot
• IPA^(key): /ju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

ute (plural utes)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck.
   • 2007, Sheryl Persson, The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Exisle Publishing, Australia, page 40,

     The Reverend John Flynn, a man of simple tastes, was always recognisable in the outback, dressed in a suit, driving an old ute and puffing on a pipe.

   • 2008, Penelope Adams, Why Women Are Stupid, Lulu, page 105,

     Still, given the choice between being stuck behind a ute in tropical scenery and spending four to five hours driving through stretches of semi-desert, I?d rather have the ute-plus-heart-attack.

   • 2009, Damian Veltri, Bandt, Louis (Lewis) Thornett (1910-1987), entry in Dianne Lingmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K, page 55,

     A sample body was made in 1933 and the first utilities, or ‘utes’, rolled off the production line next year. Dubbed ‘the Kangaroo Chaser’ by Henry Ford when Bandt displayed two examples in Detroit, United States of America, in 1935, the ute was quickly recognised as the ideal farmers? vehicle.

See also

• bakkie
• dual cab
• panel van
• pick-up truck, pickup truck
• station wagon
• tilly

Translations

Anagrams

• ETU, TEU, TUE, Tue, tue

Chuukese

Etymology

u- +? -te

Pronoun

ute

1. I will never
2. so I do not

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse úti

Pronunciation

Adverb

ute

1. outdoors
2. out; the state of being out. compare: ut

   ute av kontroll - out of control

3. uncool; "old-fashioned"

Derived terms

• utedass
• utekran
• utelåst
• utested

Related terms

• ut

References

• “ute” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse úti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??t?/

Adverb

ute

1. outdoors
2. out; the state of being out. compare: ut

   ute av kontroll - out of control

3. uncool; "old-fashioned"

Derived terms

• utedass
• utekran
• utelåst

Related terms

• ut

References

• “ute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *?t?, from Proto-Germanic *?tai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?.te/

Adverb

?te

1. outside, outdoors
   • c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

2. at a distance, out

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Adverb

ute

1. outdoors

Adjective

ute

1. out; the state of being out. compare: ut
2. uncool; "old-fashioned"