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muta

Pronunciation: /ˈmu.ta/

“muta” is an Italian word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. change (act of changing; act of replacing)
  2. moult, moulting, molt, shedding, ecdysis
  3. surveillance shift
  4. replacement
  5. wetsuit
  6. each of the two tercets in a Petrarchan sonnet
  7. pack (of hounds)
  8. a group of horses attached to a coach
  9. tax, duty
  10. customs
  11. the Piedmontese lira in the final years of the 18ᵗʰ century

In Italian

  1. cambiamento del tegumento o delle appendici tegumentarie (peli, penne, esoscheletro) in molti gruppi animali
  2. gruppo di cani da caccia

Etymology

Deverbal from mutare (“to change”) + -a.

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