Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To say (words, etc.) indistinctly; to mutter.

  2. (intransitive)To talk indistinctly; to mutter.

    talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice

Origin

From Latin mussitō (“to keep quiet; to murmur, mutter”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from

From Latin mussitō (“to keep quiet; to murmur, mutter”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from mussō (“to be silent and respectful; to say in a soft voice, murmur”) (perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mur- (“to murmur”), originally imitative) + -itō (frequentative suffix).

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Forms

mussitates, mussitating, mussitated, mussitated
Base formmussitate · to mussitate
3rd person singularmussitates
Present participlemussitating
Past simplemussitated
Past participlemussitated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymussitate
he, she, itmussitates

Past simpleLesson

all personsmussitated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mussitated
he, she, ithas mussitated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mussitate

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmussitation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

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