mulo

See also: múló

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani mulo (dead (man)).[1]

Noun

mulo (plural mulos or muli)

  1. (in Roma folklore) A vampire.

Usage notes

Both plural forms, mulos and muli, are rare.

References

  1. ^ Ronald Lee, Romani Dictionary: Kalderash - English

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin mulus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmulo/
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

Noun

mulo (accusative singular mulon, plural muloj, accusative plural mulojn)

  1. mule

Coordinate terms

Galician

Verb

mulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mulir

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mulus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: mù‧lo

Noun

mulo m (plural muli, feminine mula)

  1. mule

See also

Latin

Noun

mūlō

  1. dative/ablative singular of mūlus

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

  • Learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of muu.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmulo/
    • Rhymes: -ulo
    • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

    Noun

    mulo m (plural *mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural *mulas)

    1. male mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
      Synonym: muu

    Descendants

    • Galician: mulo
    • Portuguese: mulo

    References

    • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mulo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

    Portuguese

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mulo, a learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of mu.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmu.lu/

    • Rhymes: -ulu
    • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

    Noun

    mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

    1. (rare) male mule
      Synonyms: mula, mu, muar

    Usage notes

    • Rarely used, since mula applies to both sexes.

    Romani

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀅 (mua, dead) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮𑁆𑀮- (-lla-), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀫𑀼𑀢 (*muta), from Sanskrit मृ॒त (mṛtá, dead).

    Adjective

    mulo (feminine muli, plural mule)

    1. dead, deceased
      O Thagar si mulo! Te trail but o Thagar!The King is dead! Long live the King!

    Noun

    mulo m (plural mule)

    1. dead person, the deceased
    2. (folklore) ghost

    Descendants

    References

    • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “mulo”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 593
    • Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
    • Milena Hübschmannová (May 2002), “Mulo”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database[2], Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

    From Venetan, from Latin mūla.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mûːlo/
    • Hyphenation: mu‧lo

    Noun

    mȗlo m inan (Cyrillic spelling му̑ло)

    1. (regional) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock)

    Declension

    Declension of mulo
    singular plural
    nominative mulo mula
    genitive mula mula
    dative mulu mulima
    accusative mulo mula
    vocative mulo mula
    locative mulu mulima
    instrumental mulom mulima

    References

    • mulo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

    Spanish

    Etymology

    From Latin mūlus.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmulo/ [ˈmu.lo]
    • Rhymes: -ulo
    • Syllabification: mu‧lo

    Noun

    mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

    1. mule

    Derived terms

    Further reading