mutabilis

mutabilis

Latin

Etymology

    From mūtō (to change, alter) + -bilis.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    mūtābilis (neuter mūtābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

    1. mutable, changeable, inconstant
      • Albertus Oelingerus, Underricht der Hoch-Teutschen Spraach: Grammatica seu institutio verae Germanicae linguae, in qua Etymologia, Syntaxis & reliquae partes omnes suo ordine breviter tractantur. 1574, p. 2 (books.google):
        Et dividuntur quoque vocales, in mutabiles & immutabilies, more Graecorum. Mutabiles sunt tres. a mutatur in ä vel ä vel e, o mutatur in ö vel ö, u mutatur in ü.
        And the vowels are also divided, into changeable & unchangeable vowels, in the custom of the Greeks. Changeables are three. a is changed into ä (or ä) or e, o is changed into ö (or ö), u is changed into ü.

    Declension

    Third-declension two-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
    nominative mūtābilis mūtābile mūtābilēs mūtābilia
    genitive mūtābilis mūtābilium
    dative mūtābilī mūtābilibus
    accusative mūtābilem mūtābile mūtābilīs
    mūtābilēs
    mūtābilia
    ablative mūtābilī mūtābilibus
    vocative mūtābilis mūtābile mūtābilēs mūtābilia

    Antonyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: mudable
    • English: mutable
    • French: mutable
    • Galician: mutable
    • Italian: mutabile
    • Portuguese: mutável
    • Romanian: mutabil
    • Spanish: mudable, mutable

    References

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