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LuteEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* English surname of Old Norse origin, from lútr (“stooping”). * German surname, derived from an old Germanic name from *liudi (“people, tribe”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗luteEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Arabic عَادَ (ʕāda) Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd)der. Old Occitan laütbor. Old French leüt Middle French lutbor. English lute 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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗luteEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- LuteEnglish · e-38538-7798
Lute, lūt, n. a medieval stringed instrument of music like the guitar.—v.i. to play on the lute.—ns. Lut′anist, Lut′er, Lut′ist, a player on a lute; Lute′string, the string of a lute. [O. Fr. lut (Fr. luth); like Ger. la
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Lute, lūt, n. a composition used to exclude air, as round pipe-joints: a brickmaker's straight-edge scraper: a rubber packing-ring for a jar.—v.t. to close or coat with lute.—adjs. Lutā′rious, Lū′teous, of or like mud.—n
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