muet
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French mut, muet, from Old French mu, mut, mui, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]muet (feminine muette, masculine plural muets, feminine plural muettes)
- dumb (unable to talk)
- silent, mute, unspeaking
- (phonetics) silent, unvoiced, unspoken
- « Le » et « la » deviennent « l’ » devant une voyelle ou un « h » muet.
- Le and la become l' before a vowel or a silent "h".
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]muet m (plural muets, feminine muette)
- mute (person who does not have the power of speech)
Further reading
[edit]- “muet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman muet; sometimes influenced by Latin mūtus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]muet
- Temporarily unable to speak (due to strong emotions or secrecy)
- (rare) Mute; unable to speak or incapable of speech.
- (rare) Silent; tending not to make noise.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “mūet, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-03.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French mu, from Latin mūtus.
Adjective
[edit]muet m
Derived terms
[edit]- muettement (“mutely, silently”)
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