transmuto
See also: transmutó
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From trāns- + mūtō (“change, alter”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /transˈmuː.toː/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈmuːt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /transˈmu.to/, [t̪ränzˈmuːt̪o]
Verb edit
trānsmūtō (present infinitive trānsmūtāre, perfect active trānsmūtāvī, supine trānsmūtātum); first conjugation
- to change, shift, transform, transmute
- [fortuna] transmutat incertos honores (Horace, Carmina 3.29.51)
- (medicine) to transfer, remove
- inchoante accessione aegros ad alium transmutare locum (Caelius Aurelianus [5th c.], De morbis acutis et chronicis 1.15.142)
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Descendants edit
- → Catalan: transmutar
- → French: transmuter
- → Romanian: transmuta
- → Galician: transmutar
- Italian: trasmutare
- → Middle French: transmuer
- → Portuguese: transmutar
- → Spanish: transmutar
- → English: transmute, transmutate
References edit
- “transmuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transmuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transmuto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
transmuto
Spanish edit
Verb edit
transmuto