Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmul.tu]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmul.to]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO

Verb

multoCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#MULTOCategory:Catalan verb forms#MULTOCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. first-person singular present indicative of multar

Etymology

From SpanishCategory:Cebuano terms derived from Spanish#MULTO muerto (“dead”).

Noun

multoCategory:Cebuano lemmas#MULTOCategory:Cebuano nouns#MULTOCategory:Cebuano entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. (rareCategory:Cebuano terms with rare senses#MULTO) a ghost; the disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter

   Synonym: kalag

Etymology

Inherited from SpanishCategory:Chavacano terms inherited from Spanish#MULTOCategory:Chavacano terms derived from Spanish#MULTO muerto (“dead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulto/, [ˈmul̪.t̪o]Category:Chavacano terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO
• Hyphenation: mul‧to

Noun

multoCategory:Chavacano lemmas#MULTOCategory:Chavacano nouns#MULTOCategory:Chavacano entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. ghost; apparition of the dead

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulto/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#MULTOCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO

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  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#MULTO
• Rhymes: -ultoCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ulto#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ulto/2 syllables#MULTO
• Syllabification: mul‧to

Noun

multo (accusative singular multon, plural multoj, accusative plural multojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#MULTOCategory:Esperanto nouns#MULTOCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. a sizeable quantity or number

Further reading

• “multo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “multo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Etymology

From ItalianCategory:Interlingua terms derived from Italian#MULTO molto.

Adverb

multoCategory:Interlingua lemmas#MULTOCategory:Interlingua adverbs#MULTOCategory:Interlingua entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. very

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmul.to/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#MULTOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO
• Rhymes: -ultoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ulto#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ulto/2 syllables#MULTO
• Hyphenation: mùl‧to

Verb

multoCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#MULTOCategory:Italian verb forms#MULTOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. first-person singular present indicative of multare

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmʊɫ.toː]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#MULTOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmul.to]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#MULTOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO

Etymology 1

From multa (“penalty, fine”) +‎ -ōCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -o (denominative)#MULTO.

Etymology 2

Adverbial ablative from multus (“much”).

References

• “multo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “multo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "multo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “multo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to punish by banishment: aliquem exsilio afficere, multare
    
  • to condemn some one to a fine: pecunia multare aliquem
    
  • to punish any one with death: morte multare aliquem (Catil. 1. 11. 28)
    
  • (ambiguous) our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    
  • (ambiguous) to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
    
  • (ambiguous) the day is already far advanced: multus dies or multa lux est
    
  • (ambiguous) late at night: multa de nocte
    
  • (ambiguous) he has had many painful experiences: multa acerba expertus est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be well-informed, erudite: multa cognita, percepta habere, multa didicisse
    
  • (ambiguous) to collect, accumulate instances: multa exempla in unum (locum) colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to go deeply into a matter, discuss it fully: multa verba facere
    
  • (ambiguous) he has made several mistakes: saepe (crebro, multa) peccavit, erravit, lapsus est
    
  • (ambiguous) to make extracts from Cicero's writings: aliquid, multa ex Ciceronis libris excerpere (not excerpere librum)
    
  • (ambiguous) we are united by many mutual obligations: multa et magna inter nos officia intercedunt (Fam. 13. 65)
    
  • (ambiguous) to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
    
  • (ambiguous) the victory cost much blood and many wounds, was very dearly bought: victoria multo sanguine ac vulneribus stetit (Liv. 23. 30)
    
  • (ambiguous) in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Etymology

Borrowed from SpanishCategory:Masbatenyo terms borrowed from Spanish#MULTOCategory:Masbatenyo terms derived from Spanish#MULTO muerto (“dead”).

Noun

multoCategory:Masbatenyo lemmas#MULTOCategory:Masbatenyo nouns#MULTOCategory:Masbatenyo entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. ghost; specter

   Synonym: kalag

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ultu, (Brazil) -uwtuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ultu#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ultu/2 syllables#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/uwtu#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/uwtu/2 syllables#MULTO
• Hyphenation: mul‧to

Verb

multoCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#MULTOCategory:Portuguese verb forms#MULTOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. first-person singular present indicative of multar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulto/ [ˈmul̪.t̪o]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#MULTOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO
• Rhymes: -ultoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ulto#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ulto/2 syllables#MULTO
• Syllabification: mul‧to

Verb

multoCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#MULTOCategory:Spanish verb forms#MULTOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. first-person singular present indicative of multar

Etymology

Early borrowing from SpanishCategory:Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish#MULTOCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Spanish#MULTO muerto (“dead”) with sound shift of /ɾ/ to /l/ and stress shift following a closed penultimate syllable, from Vulgar LatinCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Vulgar Latin#MULTO *mortu(s), from LatinCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Latin#MULTO mortuus. Doublet of muwertoCategory:Tagalog doublets#MULTO.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /mulˈto/ [mʊlˈt̪o]Category:Tagalog 2-syllable words#MULTOCategory:Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation#MULTO
• Rhymes: -oCategory:Rhymes:Tagalog/o#MULTOCategory:Rhymes:Tagalog/o/2 syllables#MULTO
• Syllabification: mul‧toCategory:Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation#MULTO

Noun

multó (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ᜔ᜆᜓ)Category:Tagalog lemmas#MULTOCategory:Tagalog nouns#MULTOCategory:Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries#MULTOCategory:Tagalog terms with Baybayin script#MULTOCategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#MULTOCategory:Pages with entries#MULTOCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MULTO

1. ghost; specter

   Synonyms: (diminutive) mumo, aparisyon, (dialectal) sandurugo

2. spirit of a deceased person

   Synonyms: kaluluwa, espiritu

3. (figurative) act of haunting (like a ghost)

Further reading

• “multo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “multo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• lumot