lute
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, Canada) IPA(key): /l(j)uːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /luːt/
- (Wales, Canada) IPA(key): /lɪu̯t/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: loot (yod-dropping)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
Noun
[edit]lute (plural lutes)
- A fretted stringed instrument, 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
- Some kind of sticky clay or cement.
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References
[edit]- 2004. Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments. Murray Campbell, Clive A. Greated, Arnold Myers. Pg. 285.
Verb
[edit]lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)
- To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
- 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
- in the air , her new voice luting soft
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
Noun
[edit]lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)
- 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[1], volume 1, page 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.
- A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
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Verb
[edit]lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)
- To fix or fasten something with lute.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 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.
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[edit]Lower Sorbian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]lute
- inflection of luty:
Middle Dutch
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Noun
[edit]lute f
Inflection
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Descendants
[edit]- Dutch: luit
Further reading
[edit]- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lute (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle Low German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lûte f
- A lute.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną.
Alternative forms
[edit]- luta (a-infinitive)
Verb
[edit]lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
- (intransitive) to bend over
Etymology 2
[edit]From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).
Alternative forms
[edit]- luta (a-infinitive)
Verb
[edit]lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
- (transitive) to soak, treat in lye
Etymology 3
[edit]From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
- to allot
References
[edit]- “lute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
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[edit]lute
- inflection of luty:
Noun
[edit]lute m inan
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]lute
- inflection of lutar:
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