mutate
pronunciation
How to pronounce mutate in British English:
UK [mjuːˈteɪt]
How to pronounce mutate in American English:
US [mjuːˈteɪt]
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- Verb:
- undergo mutation
Word Origin
- mutate
- mutate: [19] Semantically, mutate is probably the most direct English descendant of the Indo- European base *moi-, *mei- ‘change, exchange’, which has also given English mad, mean ‘unworthy, ignoble’, municipal, mutual [15] (from Latin mūtuus ‘exchanged, reciprocal’), the final syllable of common, and probably migrate [17]. Mutate itself comes from Latin mūtāre ‘change’ (source also of English mews and moult), and was preceded into English by some centuries by the derivatives mutable [14] and mutation [14].=> mews, moult, mutual
- mutate (v.)
- "to change state or condition," 1818, back-formation from mutation. In genetic sense, 1913, from Latin mutatus, past participle of mutare "to change" (see mutable). Related: Mutated; mutating.