commuto

• IPA^(key): /komˈmu.to/
• Rhymes: -uto
• Hyphenation: com‧mù‧to

commuto

1. first-person singular present indicative of commutare

From con- +‎ mūtō (“change, alter”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈmuː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈmuː.t̪o]

commūtō (present infinitive commūtāre, perfect active commūtāvī, supine commūtātum); first conjugation

1. to change or alter entirely; modify, correct, reform, transform

   Synonyms: alterō, trānsferō, mūtō, versō, vertō, cōnferō

2. (of fruits) to decay, spoil, rot
3. to exchange something with another, change, barter, interchange, replace, substitute, traffic

   Synonyms: mūtō, reparō

4. to exchange words, converse, discourse, have a conversation

   Synonym: colloquor

• commūtābilis
• commūtātē
• commūtātiō
• commūtātus

• “commuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commuto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commuto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • luck is changing, waning: fortuna commutatur, se inclinat
    
  • to exchange prisoners: captivos permutare, commutare
    
  • to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri)