mutatio

Latin

Etymology

From muto +‎ -tio.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /muːˈtaː.ti.oː/, [muːˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈtat.t͡si.o/, [muˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

mūtātiō f (genitive mūtātiōnis); third declension

1. change, alteration
2. interchange, exchange

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūtātiō	mūtātiōnēs
Genitive	mūtātiōnis	mūtātiōnum
Dative	mūtātiōnī	mūtātiōnibus
Accusative	mūtātiōnem	mūtātiōnēs
Ablative	mūtātiōne	mūtātiōnibus
Vocative	mūtātiō	mūtātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: mutació
• Dutch: mutatie
• English: mutation
• French: mutation
• Friulian: mutazion
• Galician: mutación
• Italian: mutazione
• Macedonian: мутација (mutacija)
• Norwegian: mutasjon (Bokmål), mutasjon (Nynorsk)
• Occitan: mutacion
• Piedmontese: mutassion
• Polish: mutacja
• Portuguese: mutação
• Romanian: mutație
• Russian: мутация (mutacija)
• Spanish: mutación

References

• “mutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mutatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.