Latin

Adjective

mūtābilis m, f ‎(neuter mūtābile); third declension

1. changeable, mutable, inconstant
   • Albertus Oelingerus, Underricht der Hoch-Teutschen Spraach: Grammatica seu institutio verae Germanicae linguae, in qua Etymologia, Syntaxis & reliquae partes omnes suo ordine breviter tractantur. 1574, p. 2 (books.google):

     Et dividuntur quoque vocales, in mutabiles & immutabilies, more Graecorum. Mutabiles sunt tres. a mutatur in ä vel ä vel e, o mutatur in ö vel ö, u mutatur in ü.

     And the vowels are also divided, into changeable & unchangeable vowels, in the custom of the Greeks. Changeables are three. a is changed into ä (or ä) or e, o is changed into ö (or ö), u is changed into ü.

Inflection

Third declension.

Antonyms

• immutabilis

Derived terms

• mūtābilitās
• mūtābiliter

Related terms

Descendants

• English: mutable
• Italian: mutabile

References

• mutabilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mutabilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mutabilis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.