mutate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mjuːˈteɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈmju.teɪt/
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: M Y UW1 T EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: ተለወጠ (täläwäṭä) — to undergo mutation
• Catalan: mutar — to undergo mutation
• Chinese Mandarin: 變異 /变异 (biànyì) — to undergo mutation
• Dutch: muteren — to undergo mutation
• Esperanto: mutacii — to undergo mutation
• Finnish: mutatoitua — to undergo mutation
• French: muter — to undergo mutation
• Galician: mutar — to undergo mutation
• German: mutieren — to undergo mutation
• Greek: μεταλλάσσομαι (metallássomai) — to undergo mutation
• Italian: mutare — to undergo mutation
• Luxembourgish: mutéieren — to undergo mutation
• Māori: iranoi — to undergo mutation
• Portuguese: mutar — to undergo mutation
• Romanian: suferi mutație — to undergo mutation
• Scottish Gaelic: mùth — to undergo mutation
• Spanish: mutar — to undergo mutation
• Swedish: mutera — to undergo mutation
• Tagalog: mag-ibanyuhay — to undergo mutation
• Thai: กลายพันธุ์ (glaai-pan) — to undergo mutation
• Thai: ผ่าเหล่า (pàa-lào) — to undergo mutation
• Vietnamese: đột biến — to undergo mutation
• Welsh: mwtanu — to undergo mutation
• Welsh: treiglo — to undergo mutation
• Catalan: mutar — to cause mutation
• Finnish: mutatoida — to cause mutation
• Galician: mutar — to cause mutation
• Māori: whakairanoi — to cause mutation
• Spanish: mutar — to cause mutation
• Swedish: mutera — to cause mutation
• Welsh: mwtanu — to cause mutation
• Welsh: treiglo — to cause mutation