mutabilis

Latin

Etymology

From mūtāre, mūtō (“I change, alter”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /muːˈtaː.bi.lis/, [muːˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]

Adjective

mūtābilis (neuter mūtābile); third declension

  1. changeable, mutable, 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.

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative mūtābilis mūtābile mūtābilēs mūtābilia
Genitive mūtābilis mūtābilis mūtābilium mūtābilium
Dative mūtābilī mūtābilī mūtābilibus mūtābilibus
Accusative mūtābilem mūtābile mūtābilēs, mūtābilīs mūtābilia
Ablative mūtābilī mūtābilī mūtābilibus mūtābilibus
Vocative mūtābilis mūtābile mūtābilēs mūtābilia

Antonyms

Derived terms
  • mūtābilitās
  • mūtābiliter

Descendants

References
  • 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
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