mutazione
Italian
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mūtātiōnem (“change, alteration”), derived from mūtō (“to change”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.tatˈt͡sjo.ne/
- Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: mu‧ta‧zió‧ne
Noun
mutazione f (plural mutazioni)
- change, alteration, mutation
- Synonyms: cambiamento, variazione
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 1:
- mi pare che si convegna di raccontare e fare memoria dell’origine e cominciamento di così famosa città, e delle mutazioni averse e filici, e fatti passati di quella
- I believe it's appropriate to tell and remember the origin and the beginning of such a famous city, and the changes, unfavorable and favorable, and its past facts
- (linguistics) a sound change in Germanic languages:
- Grimm's law
- High German consonant shift
- (genetics) mutation
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Further reading
- mutazione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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