immutabilis Latin · revision 33062

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la mūtō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪm.muːˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [im.muˈtaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immūtābilis''' (neuter immūtābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|mūtābilis|t1=not|t2=changeable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|mūtō|t=to change]] goes back, with [[m|la|mūtuus]], to a stem [[itc-pro|*moito-]], perhaps [[ine-pro|*h₂moi-to-|t=(object of) change]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of eternal and unchangeable causes in ''On Fate''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means unchangeable, unalterable, a rare but classical word:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of causes, of an eternal and unchangeable thing in the ''Republic'', and of what cannot turn from true to false.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is "immutable".^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of unchangeable causes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 485–c. 580 AD – Cassiodorus has the comparative of the rare second word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unchangeable|alt=Unchangeable]], unalterable, [[m|en|immutable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immūtābilitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mūtābilis]]

+ * [[mūtō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD and Lewis & Short record a rare second ''immūtābilis'', made from [[immūtō]] “to change”, that apparently means "changed" or "liable to change": Plautus uses it of altered dress, and Cassiodorus has the comparative.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}