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From villus (“hair, tuft”) +‎ -ūtus (adjective-forming suffix). Attested in a gloss from the seventh century CE.[1]

villūtus (feminine villūta, neuter villūtum); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. shaggy, hairy

First/second-declension adjective.

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vĭllūtus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 459