mummer

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
2. An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

Verb

Synonym of mum (“to act in pantomime or dumb show”).

Conceitos

mímico

fantasiado

bufão

mascarado

mímica

Sinônimos

mime

pantomimist

mimer

pantomimer

actor

mimic

masquerader

Traduções

mime

μίμος

maskaralık

pantomimo

pantomimespeler

máscara

😷

mimo

pantomimo

mim

maskeli aktör

pantomim

μασκαράς

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmʌm.ə/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: mummer

Cognato com alemão: Mumme

Cognato com inglês: mump

In summary

From Middle English mummer, mommer, equivalent to mum + -er, perhaps conflating with Old French momeor (“jester, entertainer”), from mommer (“to wear a mask”), from momon (“mask”). Compare German Mumme (“mask”), 16th Century German mummen (“to disguise oneself”), Middle Dutch mommen, mummen (“to go about in a mask, to disguise”), Middle Low Saxon mommen (“to wear a mask, to disguise”), Dutch mom (“mask”) and mimmen (“to mask”) as well as Spanish momo (“grimace”).
Perhaps both of the conflated terms are from the same ultimate root, as note Middle Low Saxon mummen (“to speak indistinctly, to disguise oneself”), Dutch mommen (“to speak indistinctly”), German mummen (“to speak indistinctly”), English mump (“to grimace, mumble”).