transmuter

English

Etymology

From transmute + -er.

Noun

transmuter (plural transmuters)

1. One who, or that which, transmutes.
   • 2002, Lawrence Principe, Lloyd DeWitt, Transmutations, page 8:

     Hopeful transmuters of metals thus became associated with counterfeiters and forgers. Accordingly, during his tour of the Inferno, Dante meets two alchemists deep in the eighth circle of Hell […]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmūtāre (infinitive trānsmūtāre). Doublet of transmuer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/

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Verb

transmuter

1. (transitive) to transmute

   Synonym: transmuer

Conjugation

Conjugation of transmuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transmuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transmutant /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transmuté /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	transmutes /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	transmutons /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɔ̃/	transmutez /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/	transmutent /tʁɑ̃s.myt/
	imperfect	transmutais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/	transmutais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/	transmutait /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/	transmutions /tʁɑ̃s.my.tjɔ̃/	transmutiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tje/	transmutaient /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/
	past historic2	transmutai /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/	transmutas /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta/	transmuta /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta/	transmutâmes /tʁɑ̃s.my.tam/	transmutâtes /tʁɑ̃s.my.tat/	transmutèrent /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛʁ/
	future	transmuterai /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁe/	transmuteras /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁa/	transmutera /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁa/	transmuterons /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɔ̃/	transmuterez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁe/	transmuteront /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transmuterais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/	transmuterais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/	transmuterait /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/	transmuterions /tʁɑ̃s.my.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	transmuteriez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tə.ʁje/	transmuteraient /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	transmutes /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	transmutions /tʁɑ̃s.my.tjɔ̃/	transmutiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tje/	transmutent /tʁɑ̃s.myt/
	imperfect2	transmutasse /tʁɑ̃s.my.tas/	transmutasses /tʁɑ̃s.my.tas/	transmutât /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta/	transmutassions /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta.sjɔ̃/	transmutassiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta.sje/	transmutassent /tʁɑ̃s.my.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/	—	transmutons /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɔ̃/	transmutez /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “transmuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Verb

trānsmūter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of trānsmūtō