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Latin
Etymology
From mūtāre, mūtō (“I change, alter”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mūtābilis (neuter mūtābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- mutable, changeable, 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.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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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.