tute

Clipping of tutorial.

• tut (tutorial)

• (US) IPA^(key): /tut/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: toot (yod-dropping)

tute (plural tutes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of tutorial.
   • 1991, Hazel Holt, A lot to ask: a life of Barbara Pym, Dutton, page 29:

     Tute [tutorial] in the morning. Morrison couldn't think of much to say to us.'

   • 2002, Michael Singh, Worlds of learning: globalisation and multicultural education, Common Ground, page 35:

     The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.

   • 2009, Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein, Genres in the Internet: issues in the theory of genre, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 127:

     Many online genres - like the homless blog, the electronic petition, the review, and the "tute" [...] are often public

Clipping of institute.

• 'tute (institute)

• (US) IPA^(key): /tut/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: toot (yod-dropping)

tute (plural tutes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of institute.

   How did you know I went to the tute?

From Spanish tute, previously from Italian tutti.

tute (plural tutes)

1. (card games) A trick-taking card game, originally from Italy.

• et tu

From Arabic تُوتَة (tūta).

tute f (singulative)

1. singulative of tut

tute f (plural tutát)

1. mulberry (tree)

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 177

• IPA^(key): /ˈtute/

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• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: tu‧te

tute

1. entirely; wholly; utterly; completely; totally

   La artikolo ne tute pravas. ― The article isn't entirely true.

   Ni tute certas, ke ni vidis fantomon. ― We are entirely certain that we saw a ghost.

   Pardonu min, sed mi tute forgesis vian nomon. ― Forgive me, but I've completely forgotten your name.

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:

     "Sed ĉu vi povos persvadi nin," li demandis, "se ni ne aŭskultos?" "Tute ne," Glaŭkono respondis. "Do konkludu ke ni ne aŭskultos."

     "But will you be able to persuade us", he asked, "if we will not listen?" "Absolutely not", Glaucon answered. "So, conclude that we will not listen."

     (literally, “But will you be able to persuade us," he asked, "if we will not listen?" "Completely not, Glaucon answered. "So, conclude that we will not listen."”)

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tute

1. inflection of tuten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.te/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: tù‧te

tute f

1. plural of tuta

From tū +‎ te.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtuː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtuː.te]

tūte

1. you yourself

   Tute dicebas! ― You yourself were speaking!

   Tute tibi imperes. ― You yourself should order you.

   Ut tute mihi praecepisti. ― As you yourself have taught me.

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.62:

     Tibi si recta probanti placebis, tum non modo tete viceris.

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   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales:

     O Tite tute Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne tulisti!

     O thou tyrant, Titus Tatius, such great troubles you brought upon yourself!

• tūtemet

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtuː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtuː.te]

tūtē (comparative tūtius, superlative tūtissimē)

1. safely, securely, in safety, without danger

• tueor

• “tute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /ˈtute/ [ˈtʉtɛ]

tute

1. masculine equivalent of tūī

• “tute” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Cognates include Minica Huitoto tute and Nüpode Huitoto tutde.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtutɛ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧te

tute

1. (transitive) to hit

• pute

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

Onomatopoeic.

tute (imperative tut, present tense tuter, simple past and past participle tuta or tutet, present participle tutende)

1. to toot, hoot, honk, howl, blow (e.g. a horn)

• tut (noun)

• “tute” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian tutti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtute/ [ˈt̪u.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: tu‧te

tute m (plural tutes)

1. (card games) tute (card game)
2. (card games) a trick-taking play in the same game, combining four kings or four knights
3. (informal) strife

• “tute”, 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

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tute

1. yellow

tute

1. feminine plural of tuto

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tute f (plural tuutn, diminutive tuutje)

1. dummy, pacifier

• tutı

• IPA^(key): [tuˈtə]
• Hyphenation: tu‧te

tute f

1. female equivalent of tut