Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

permutation

 

a rearrangement, transformation, alteration

 

Because Latin is a highly inflected language, word-order permutations involving basic structural words are possible with no change of meaning.

 

Related English words: permutate (to cause to undergo a permutation), permutable, permute (to alter, change)

 

Latin root words: permutatio, permutationis, f. - a complete change; permuto, permutare, permutavi, permutatus - to change completely; muto, mutare, mutavi, mutatus - to change

 

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