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mutabilis

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Latin

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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    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

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    Third-declension two-termination adjective.

    Antonyms

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    References

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    • 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.