múleo

Learned borrowing from Latin mulleus (“red [shoe]”).

múleo m (plural múleos)

1. (religion) papal shoe

• “múleo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “múleo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin mulleus (calceus).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuleo/ [ˈmu.le.o]
• Rhymes: -uleo
• Syllabification: mú‧le‧o

múleo f (plural múleos)

1. (historical) a kind of purple Roman shoe used by Patricians

   Synonyms: mulilla, muléolo

• “múleo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025