immuto Latin · revision 32702

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *moito-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪmˈmuː.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [imˈmuː.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immūtō''' (present infinitive immūtāre, perfect active immūtāvī, supine immūtātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inmūtō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Terence has the archaic passive infinitive ''inmūtārier''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|mūtō|t2=to change]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it under [[mutuus|alt=mūtuus]], since both that adjective and [[muto|alt=mūtō]] presuppose a noun “(object of) change”, [[itc-pro|*moito-]]; its further origin is either a root meaning “to exchange” seen in [[mitto|alt=mittō]] or the root of [[munus|alt=mūnus]], which he finds closer in meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Amphitruo'' someone wonders how people have changed since they came home from abroad, and another asks where he was changed and lost his own shape.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to make different, alter, and of attitude to change someone's mind: Cicero tells his audience that he feels they have been slightly changed.^(OLD 2012) It is also to change the form of, metamorphose, as in the ''Amphitruo''.^(OLD 2012) It is to change by substitution: in the same play a character changes his clothes.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it is to replace one word with another by metonymy, as in Cicero's words that are transferred or changed.^(OLD 2012) Intransitively Lucretius uses it of things forced to change.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it change, alter.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a changed shape and a change of clothes.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence has the passive ''inmūtārier''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of things forced to change.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a changed audience and of metonymy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To change, [[m|en|alter]], modify; to change someone's mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To change the form of, [[m|en|transform]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To change by substitution;^(OLD 2012) ''(rhetoric)'' to replace a word by [[m|en|metonymy]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To become changed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immūtābilis]]

+ * [[immūtātiō]]

+ * [[immutator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[muto|alt=mūtō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}