jute meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

jute

nounalso spelled Jute

/d͡ʒuːt/

Etymology Borrowed from Bengali ঝুট (jhuṭ). Likely related to Ukrainian джгут (džhut) and Russian жгут (žgut).

The coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.

The plants from which this fibre is obtained.

Derived terms: Congo jute, jutelike, jute mallow, Juteopolis, nalta jute, tossa jute

Jute

noun

/juːt/

Etymology From Latin plural Iuti, Iutae (in Bede), from Old English Ēotas. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *eut, from Proto-Germanic *eutaz, *eutaniz. The spelling was later influenced by Medieval Latin Jutae, Juti.

A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually integrated by the time of the Norman Conquest.

No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:

Derived terms: Jutic, Jutish