transmuter

English

Etymology

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 […]

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmūtō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/

Verb

transmuter

1. (transitive) to transmute

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).

Synonyms

• transmuer

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) trānsmūter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of trānsmūtō