mudo

From Latin mutus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/
• Syllabification: mu‧do
• Rhymes: -udo

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. (Somontano) dumb, mute

• “mudo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmu.ðu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmu.ðo]

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuðo/

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus.

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute

mudo m (plural mudos)

1. mute person

15th century (muudo), from Vulgar Latin mōlūtus, alternative past participle of molō.

• mundo

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. milled, ground

   Synonym: moído

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 99:

     todo ben muudo et pisado con huun pouco daçafran

     everything well ground and crushed with a little saffron

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “muudo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “moer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mudo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: mù‧do

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudare

• dumo

• Rhymes: -udu
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudo, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

mudo m (plural mudos, feminine muda, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute (person unable to speak)

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas, not comparable)

1. mute
   1. (of a person) suffering from muteness

      Ele é mudo de nascença. ― He was born mute.

   2. not uttering sounds

      A TV está muda. ― The TV is mute.

2. of a letter that is written but not pronounced in a word; silent

   O K na palavra "know" é mudo. ― The K in the word "know" is silent.

• mudamente
• mudez

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar; "I change"

• “mudo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫdo.

• IPA^(key): /mǔːdo/
• Hyphenation: mu‧do

múdo n (Cyrillic spelling му́до)

1. (anatomy, formal) testicle

   Synonyms: jáje, sjȅmenīk, sȅmenīk, tèstis

2. (vulgar, usually in the plural) balls, nuts (bravery or courage)

   Nemaš muda to učiniti! ― You don't have the balls to do it!

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings

   imati muda ― to have balls/nuts (to do something)

   uhvatiti za muda ― to have someone by the balls

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudo/ [ˈmu.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: mu‧do

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

mudo (feminine muda, masculine plural mudos, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute, dumb (not having the power of speech)

   Synonym: afónico

2. silent, speechless (not speaking)

   Synonyms: callado, silencioso

   cine mudo ― silent film

   • 1888, Roberto Payró, Novelas y fantasías, page 219:

     Por fin llegaron á la casa; subieron la escalera, ella del brazo de él, pero sin mirarse, sin decirse una palabra, mudos, como temerosos.

     Finally they arrived at the house; they climbed the stairs, she on his arm, but without looking at each other, without saying a word to each other, silent, as if afraid.

3. (astrology) being a water sign
4. (linguistics) plosive

   Synonym: oclusivo

5. (phonetics) silent (not pronounced)

   h muda ― silent h

mudo m (plural mudos, feminine muda, feminine plural mudas)

1. mute (a person who does not have the power of speech)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mudar

• “mudo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫdo. Cognate with Lower Sorbian mud.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmudɔ/
• Rhymes: -udɔ
• Hyphenation: mu‧do
• Syllabification: mu‧do

mudo n (related adjective mudny or mudowy)

1. (anatomy) testicle (male sexual organ that, in man and certain other animals, is contained in the corresponding testicular or scrotal sac, where sperm and testosterone are produced)

• “mudo” in Soblex

From Middle Welsh mudaw, from Proto-Brythonic *mʉdad, from Latin mūtō.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɨ̞dɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɔ/, /ˈmɪdɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞dɔ

mudo (first-person singular present mudaf)

1. to migrate, to emigrate
2. to move, to remove, to convey
3. (colloquial) to move house

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mudo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies