mutatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mūtō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tio

Latin mūtātiō

From mūtō + -tio.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [muːˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [muˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

mūtātiō f (genitive mūtātiōnis); third declension

1. change, alteration
2. interchange, exchange

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mūtātiō	mūtātiōnēs
genitive	mūtātiōnis	mūtātiōnum
dative	mūtātiōnī	mūtātiōnibus
accusative	mūtātiōnem	mūtātiōnēs
ablative	mūtātiōne	mūtātiōnibus
vocative	mūtātiō	mūtātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Asturian: mutación
• → Catalan: mutació
• → Dutch: mutatie
• → English: mutation
• → French: mutation
• → Friulian: mutazion
• → Galician: mutación
• → Italian: mutazione
• → Macedonian: мутација (mutacija)
• Norwegian: mutasjon (Bokmål), mutasjon (Nynorsk)
• → Occitan: mutacion
• → Piedmontese: mutassion
• → Polish: mutacja
• → Portuguese: mutação
• → Romanian: mutație
• → Russian: мутация (mutacija)
• → Spanish: mutación
• → Turkish: mutasyon

References

• “mutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mutatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.