Latin

Noun

trānsmūtātiō f ‎(genitive trānsmūtātiōnis); third declension

1. (grammar) transposition

   transmutatione, qua ordo turbatur (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.39)

2. changing, variability, alteration, transmutation

   Omne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum de sursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio [(παραλλαγή ‎(parallagḗ)] nec vicissitudinis obumbratio. (Nova Vulgata, James 1:17)

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• trānsmūtō

Descendants

• Russian: трансмутация ‎(transmutacija)

References

• transmutatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “transmutatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.