mutabilis

mutabilis

Latin

Etymology

From mūtāre, mūtō (“I change, alter”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːˈtaː.bi.lis/, [muːˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]

Adjective

mūtābilis (neuter mūtābile); third declension

1. changeable, mutable, 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.

Inflection

Third declension.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	mūtābilis	mūtābile		mūtābilēs	mūtābilia
Genitive	mūtābilis	mūtābilis		mūtābilium	mūtābilium
Dative	mūtābilī	mūtābilī		mūtābilibus	mūtābilibus
Accusative	mūtābilem	mūtābile		mūtābilēs, mūtābilīs	mūtābilia
Ablative	mūtābilī	mūtābilī		mūtābilibus	mūtābilibus
Vocative	mūtābilis	mūtābile		mūtābilēs	mūtābilia

Antonyms

• immutabilis

Derived terms

• mūtābilitās
• mūtābiliter

Related terms

• mūtātiō
• mutatis mutandis
• mūtātor
• mūtātūra
• mūtātus
• mūtō

 

Descendants

• English: mutable
• Italian: mutabile
• Portuguese: mutável, mudável
• Spanish: mutable, mudable

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