mule

mule
\ \ English has two words mule. The ‘donkeylike animal’ [13] comes via Old French mul from Latin mūlus, which was borrowed from a pre- Latin language of the Mediterranean area; Albanian muškmule’ is related. Mule the ‘slipper’ [16] is probably an adaptation of Latin mulleus, which denoted a sort of red or purple shoe worn by high-ranking magistrates in Rome.
\ \ This was short for mulleus calceusred shoe’, and mulleus itself appears to have been derived from mullusred mullet’ (ultimate source of English mullet [15]), which in turn came from Greek múllos, a relative of mélāsblack’.
\ \ Cf.MULLET

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