commutatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin mūtō

Latin commūtō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin commūtātiō

From commūtō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.muːˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.muˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

commūtātiō f (genitive commūtātiōnis); third declension

1. change, alteration, reversal
2. upheaval
3. exchange
4. interchange

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	commūtātiō	commūtātiōnēs
genitive	commūtātiōnis	commūtātiōnum
dative	commūtātiōnī	commūtātiōnibus
accusative	commūtātiōnem	commūtātiōnēs
ablative	commūtātiōne	commūtātiōnibus
vocative	commūtātiō	commūtātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: commutation
• Italian: commutazione
• → Russian: коммута́ция (kommutácija)
• Spanish: conmutación

References

• “commutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “commutatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the succession of the four seasons: commutationes temporum quadripartitae