lute

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l(j)uːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /luːt/

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• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: loot (in accents with yod-dropping)

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود‎ (al-ʿūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud.

lute (plural lutes)

1. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, 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

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

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
   • Tennyson

     Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

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From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

1. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
3. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

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

• lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Tuel, tuel, tule

• IPA^(key): /ˈlutɛ/, [ˈlutə]

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. nominative and accusative singular neuter
   2. nominative and accusative plural

lute f

1. lute

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• Dutch: luit

• “lute (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic عود‎ (al-ʿūd, “wood”).

• IPA^(key): /luːtə/

lûte f

1. A lute.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tɛ/

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative, accusative, and vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative, accusative, and vocative plural

lute m inan

1. nominative, accusative, and vocative plural of luty

lute

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lutar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of lutar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lutar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lutar