Where does “mutable” come from?
mutable (Middle English) comes from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis, from Latin muto, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
mutable (Middle English): mutable, changeable, variable
Definitions
- mutable, changeable, variable
Ancestry of “mutable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | mutable | — |
| 2 | Latin | mutabilis | mutable, changeable, inconstant |
| 3 | Latin | muto | I move, remove; I alter, change, modify,... |
| 4 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 5 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |