# mulo
## English
### Alternative forms

* mullo

### Etymology

Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).

### Noun

mulo (plural mulos or muli)
* (in Roma folklore) A vampire.

#### Usage notes

Both plural forms, mulos and muli, are rare.

### References

* ↑ Ronald Lee, Romani Dictionary: Kalderash - English

### Anagrams

* LUMO, omul, umol

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin mulus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmulo]
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Hyphenation: mu‧lo

### Noun

mulo (accusative singular mulon, plural muloj, accusative plural mulojn)
* mule

#### Coordinate terms

* hino, azenĉevalo

## Galician
### Verb

mulo
* first-person singular present indicative of mulir

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin mulus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu.lo/
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Hyphenation: mù‧lo

### Noun

mulo m (plural muli, feminine mula)
* mule

#### See also

* bardotto

## Latin
### Noun

mūlō
* dative/ablative singular of mūlus

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of muu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmulo/
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Hyphenation: mu‧lo

### Noun

mulo m (plural *mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural *mulas)
* male mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
    Synonym: muu

#### Descendants

* Galician: mulo
* Portuguese: mulo

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mulo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mulo, borrowed from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Italic *mukslos. Doublet of mu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu.lu/
* Rhymes: -ulu
* Hyphenation: mu‧lo

### Noun

mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)
* (rare) male mule
    Synonyms: mula, mu, muar

#### Usage notes

* Rarely used, since mula applies to both sexes.

## Romani
### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀅 (mua, “dead”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮𑁆𑀮- (-lla-), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀫𑀼𑀢 (*muta), from Sanskrit मृ॒त (mṛtá, “dead”).

### Adjective

mulo (feminine muli, plural mule)
* dead, deceased
    O Thagar si mulo! Te trail but o Thagar! ― The King is dead! Long live the King!

### Noun

mulo m (plural mule)
* dead person, the deceased
* (folklore) ghost

#### Descendants

* → English: mulo
* → Limburgish: mol, moll

### References

* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mulo”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 593
* Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
* Milena Hübschmannová (2002 May) “Mulo”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Venetan, from Latin mūla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mûːlo/
* Hyphenation: mu‧lo

### Noun

mȗlo m (Cyrillic spelling му̑ло)
* (regional) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock)

#### Declension
### References

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin mūlus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmulo/ [ˈmu.lo]
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Syllabification: mu‧lo

### Noun

mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)
* mule

#### Derived terms

* ciervo mulo

#### Related terms

* mular

### Further reading

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