Latin

Noun

mutulus

1. projecting shelf, bracket
2. slab under corona of cornice
3. stone or wood overhang

Descendants

• French: moellon, mutule
• Italian: mucchio, mutulo
• Portuguese: mútulo
• Romanian: muchie
• Spanish: mojón

References

• mutulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• MUTULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mutulus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• mutulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mutulus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin