# lute
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, Canada) IPA: /l(j)uːt/
* (General American) IPA: /luːt/
* (Wales, Canada) IPA: /lɪu̯t/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːt
* Homophone: loot (yod-dropping)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

lute (plural lutes)
* A fretted stringed instrument, 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

##### Derived terms

* angel lute
* archlute
* bowl lute
* German lute
* lute-backed
* lute guitar
* spike lute
* yoke lute

##### Related terms

* archlute
* lutanist, lutenist
* luter
* lutherie
* luthier
* lutist

##### References

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

#### Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)
* 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)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
** 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:in the air , her new voice luting soft

#### See also

* barbiton, barbitos
* guembri
* guqin
* mandola
* mandolin
* oud
* pipa
* rebab
* samisen, shamisen
* theorbo

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)
* Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
** 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry‎, volume 1, page 41:He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
* A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
* (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

##### Translations
#### Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)
* To fix or fasten something with lute.
** 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 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.

##### Derived terms

* lutation
* luter

### Further reading

* lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Tuel, tuel, Elut, tule

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlutɛ/, [ˈlutə]

### Adjective

lute
* inflection of luty:
** neuter nominative/accusative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

lute f
* lute

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: luit

### Further reading

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

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luːtə/

### Noun

lûte f
* A lute.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną.

#### Alternative forms

* luta (a-infinitive)

#### Verb

lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
* (intransitive) to bend over

### Etymology 2

From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).

#### Alternative forms

* luta (a-infinitive)

#### Verb

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
* (transitive) to soak, treat in lye

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Verb

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lute/lut)
* to allot

### References

* “lute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* letu, ulet, ulte

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlu.tɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -utɛ
* Syllabification: lu‧te

### Adjective

lute
* inflection of luty:
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Noun

lute m inan
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty

## Portuguese
### Verb

lute
* inflection of lutar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Unami
### Etymology

From
* /lu/: to burn
* /te/: makes word an inanimate verb
* /-w/ (suffix): third person suffix
Cognate with Munsee lóoteew (“it burns”).

### Verb

lute inan (plural luteyo, 3sg conjunct lutèk) (vii)
* (inanimate, intransitive) it burned, it is burned

#### Related terms

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

### References

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