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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of mūtō (“move, change”).
Participle
mūtātus (feminine mūtāta, neuter mūtātum); first/second-declension participle
- moved, removed, having been moved.
- altered, changed, modified, having been transformed.
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 1.1:
- In nova fert animus mūtātās dīcere fōrmās corpora;
- My mind moves me to tell of forms changed into new bodies;
- varied, diversified, having been varied.
- mutated, spoiled, having been mutated.
- exchanged, bartered, sold, having been exchanged.
- forsaken, having been forsaken.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “mutatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mutatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mutatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mutatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.