Noun: mosette
| Singular | mosette |
| Plural | mosettes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mosette
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from French mosette, from Italian mozzetta; further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
2. * from Italian mozzo (“cut off; shortened”, adjective) (from Vulgar Latin *mutius, from Latin mutilus (“mutilated”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mewt- (“cut short”)); or
3. * from Late Latin almucia (“hood or cape with a hood worn by clergy”) (further etymology unknown)
4. + Italian -etta (feminine form of -etto (diminutive suffix)).
5. Doublet of mozetta. See: French Nouns '
mosette', Italian Nouns '
mozzetta', Italian Nouns '
mozzo', Latin Nouns '
mutilus', Italian Nouns '
-etta'.