mutate

English

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Etymology

First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈteɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmju.teɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

mutate (third-person singular simple present mutates, present participle mutating, simple past and past participle mutated)

1. (intransitive) To undergo mutation.

   The virus has mutated into a more resilient version.

2. (transitive) To cause mutation.

Derived terms

• dismutate
• hypermutate
• mutase
• mutatable
• mutative
• mutator
• mutein
• paramutate
• premutate
• stereomutate
• transmutate

Related terms

• mutant
• mutation
• mutatis mutandis

Translations

to undergo mutation

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: mutar Chinese: Mandarin: 變異 / 变异 (zh) (biànyì) Dutch: muteren (nl) Esperanto: mutacii Finnish: mutatoitua (fi) French: muter (fr) Galician: mutar German: mutieren (de) Greek: μεταλλάσσομαι (el) (metallássomai) Italian: mutare (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: mutéieren Maori: iranoi Portuguese: mutar (pt) Romanian: suferi mutație Scottish Gaelic: mùth Swedish: mutera (sv) Tagalog: mag-ibanyuhay Thai: กลายพันธุ์ (th) (glaai-pan), ผ่าเหล่า (th) (pàa-lào) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: đột biến Welsh: mwtanu (genetics), treiglo (cy) (linguistics)

to cause mutation

Catalan: mutar Finnish: mutatoida Galician: mutar Maori: whakairanoi Swedish: mutera (sv) Welsh: mwtanu (genetics), treiglo (cy) (linguistics)

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Czech: mutovat French: muter (fr) German: mutieren (de) Russian: мутировать (ru) (mutirovatʹ) Spanish: mutar (es)

Anagrams

• Matute

Italian

Verb

mutate

1. inflection of mutare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• temuta, umetta

Latin

Verb

mūtāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of mūtō

Participle

mūtāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mūtātus

Spanish

Verb

mutate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mutar combined with te