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Latin
Etymology
trāns- + mūtātiō (or trānsmūtō + -tiō), post-Augustean. First attested in the late 1st century.
Pronunciation
Noun
trānsmūtātiō f (genitive trānsmūtātiōnis); third declension
- (grammar) transposition
c. 35 CE – 100 CE,
Quintilian,
Institutio Oratoria 1.5.39:
- trānsmūtātiōne, quā ōrdō turbātur
- By transposition, by which the order is confused
- changing, variability, alteration, transmutation
Vulgata—Epistula Jacobi 1.17:
- Omne datum optimum, et omne donum perfectum desursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio, nec vicissitudinis obumbratio.
- Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variability, nor shadow of turning.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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