mutabilis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [muːˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [muˈtaː.bi.lis]

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

• immutabilis

Derived terms

• mūtābilitās
• mūtābiliter

Related terms

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

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.