mussitate
3 synonyms for mussitate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To speak so quietly or unclearly that the words are hard to make out.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Comes from Latin mussitō (“to keep quiet; to murmur, mutter”) plus -ate (verb-forming suffix). Mussitō itself comes from mussō (“to be silent and respectful; to say in a soft voice, murmur”) — perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mur- (“to murmur”), originally imitative — plus -itō (frequentative suffix).
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