• (UK,Canada)IPA^(key):/l(j)uːt/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/luːt/
• (Wales,Canada)IPA^(key):/lɪu̯t/

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• Rhymes:-uːt
• Homophone:loot(yod-dropping)

FromMiddle Frenchlut (modernluth), fromOld Frenchleüt, probably fromOld Occitanlaüt, fromArabicاَلْعُود(al-ʕūd,“wood”) (probably representing anAndalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation).Doublet ofoud,lavta, andlaouto.

lute (plurallutes)

1. Afrettedstringedinstrument, similar to theguitar, having a bowl-shaped body orsoundbox; any of a wide variety ofchordophones with a pear-shaped body and aneck whose upper surface is in the same plane as thesoundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

   Coordinate term:guitar

• 2004.Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments. Murray Campbell, Clive A. Greated, Arnold Myers. Pg. 285.

lute (third-person singular simple presentlutes,present participleluting,simple past and past participleluted)

1. 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)”, inThe Princess: A Medley, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC:

     Knaves are men / Thatlute and flute fantastic tenderness.

   • 1820,John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, inLamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London:[…] [Thomas Davison] forTaylor and Hessey, […],→OCLC:

     in the air , her new voiceluting soft

FromOld Frenchlut, ultimately fromLatinlutum(“mud”).

lute (countable anduncountable,plurallutes)

2. Thick stickyclay orcement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make somethingair-tight.
   • 1830,Thomas Thomson (chemist),The History of Chemistry‎^[1], volume 1, page41:

     He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used otherlutes 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.

lute (third-person singular simple presentlutes,present participleluting,simple past and past participleluted)

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’,Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published2005, page179:

     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.

•  lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Tuel,tuel,Elut,tule

• IPA^(key):/ˈlutɛ/,[ˈlutə]

lute

1. inflection ofluty:
   1. neuternominative/accusativesingular
   2. nominative/accusativeplural

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lute f

1. lute

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

• Dutch:luit

• Verwijs, E.,Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lute (I)”, inMiddelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,→ISBN, page I

Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchleut(“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), fromOld Frenchleüt(“lute”), probably fromOld Occitanlaüt, fromArabicاَلْعُود(al-ʕūd,“wood”).

• IPA^(key):/luːtə/

lûte f

1. Alute.

FromOld Norselúta, fromProto-Germanic*lūtaną.

• luta(a-infinitive)

lute (present tenselutar/luter,past tenseluta/lutte,past participleluta/lutt,passive infinitivelutast,present participlelutande,imperativelute/lut)

1. (intransitive) tobend over

From the nounlut m orf(“lye”).

• luta(a-infinitive)

lute (present tenselutar,past tenseluta,past participleluta,passive infinitivelutast,present participlelutande,imperativelute/lut)

1. (transitive) tosoak,treat inlye

FromOld Norsehluta, fromProto-Germanic*hlutōną.

• luta(a-infinitive)
• lùta,lùte(alternative spelling)

lute (present tenselutar,past tenseluta,past participleluta,passive infinitivelutast,present participlelutande,imperativelute/lut)

1. toallot

• “lute” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• letu,ulet,ulte

• IPA^(key):/ˈlu.tɛ/

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• Rhymes:-utɛ
• Syllabification:lu‧te

lute

1. inflection ofluty:
   1. neuternominative/accusative/vocativesingular
   2. nonvirilenominative/accusative/vocativeplural

lute m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofluty

lute

1. inflection oflutar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

From

• /lu/: to burn
• /te/: makes word an inanimate verb
• /-w/(suffix): third person suffix

Cognate withMunseelóoteew(“it burns”).

lute inan (pluralluteyo,3sg conjunctlutèk)(vii)

1. (inanimate,intransitive) itburned, it isburned

• lusasu (vai)
• lusu (vai)
• wëlusëmën (vti)
• lehëlusit
• lusitahsu

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “lute”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors,The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project