mutis

mutis is a Latin form of mutus, meaning “dumb, mute, silent”. It is the ablative plural neuter adjective or ablative plural masculine adjective or dative plural neuter adjective or dative plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of mutio, “to mutter, mumble, speak in a low tone”.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.19: Ecquid ergo primum mutis tribuemus beluis? non enim mediocres viri, sed maxumi et docti, Pythagoras et Empedocles, unam omnium animant …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 14.90.4: … dem habebant et ducem et legem, commissi melioris arbitrio. Naturae est enim potioribus deteriora summittere. Mutis quidem gregibus aut maxima corpora praesunt aut vehcmentissima vehementissima. Non praecedit armenta degener …

All forms of mutus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.