noun
1.
a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
verb (used without object)
2.
to play a lute.
verb (used with object)
3.
to perform (music) on a lute: a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads.
4.
to express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute: The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, Old French < Old Provençal laut < Arabic al ʿūd literally, the wood
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, Old French < Old Provençal laut < Arabic al ʿūd literally, the wood
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lute1 (luːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| an ancient plucked stringed instrument, consisting of a long fingerboard with frets and gut strings, and a body shaped like a sliced pear | |
| [C14: from Old French lut, via Old Provençal from Arabic al `ūd, literally: the wood] | |
| lute2 (luːt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: luting a mixture of cement and clay used to seal the joints between pipes, etc |
| 2. | dentistry a thin layer of cement used to fix a crown or inlay in place on a tooth |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to seal (a joint or surface) with lute |
| [C14: via Old French ultimately from Latin lutum clay] | |
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Word Origin & History
lute
late 13c., from O.Fr. lut, from O.Prov. laut, from Arabic al-'ud, the Arabian lute, lit. "the wood" (source of Sp. laud, Port. alaude, It. liuto), where al is the definite article.
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Example sentences
It is a short-necked wasted lute, the lower chamber having a parchment sound-table.
To prove he's not your everyday teamster, he starts out playing the harmonica and ends up twanging a lute.
The pipa is a four-stringed pear-shaped instrument that resembles the lute, and is one of the world's oldest instruments.
The lute is the instrument that evolved into the guitar.
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