futo

See also: futó, fűtő, futō, fūtō, and futo-

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 封筒 (fūtō).

Noun

futo

  1. envelope

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фут (fut), itself a borrowing of English foot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fōts. Compare German Fuß, Yiddish פֿוס (fus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfuto/
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  • Rhymes: -uto
  • Hyphenation: fu‧to

Noun

futo (accusative singular futon, plural futoj, accusative plural futojn)

  1. foot (unit of measure equal to 12 inches)
  • colo (inch); 1/12 foot
  • jardo (yard); 3 feet
  • mejlo (mile); 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet

Japanese

Romanization

futo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ふと

Latin

Etymology

Apparent back-formation from cōnfūtō (to refute, confound).

Pronunciation

Verb

fūtō (present infinitive fūtāre, perfect active fūtāvī, supine fūtātum); first conjugation

  1. to argue

Conjugation

References

  • "futo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • futo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Dictionary of Medieval Latin in British Sources