mutabilis

Latin

Etymology

From mūtāre, mūtō (I 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 mūtābilēs
mūtābilīs
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.