commutare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūtāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kom.muˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: com‧mu‧tà‧re

Verb

commutàre (first-person singular present còmmuto or (traditional) commùto[1], first-person singular past historic commutài, past participle commutàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, mathematics) to commute, to swap
  2. (transitive, law) to commute (a sentence)
  3. (transitive, electricity) to invert (current)
  4. (transitive, electricity) to switch (the connections between circuits)

Conjugation

References

  1. commuto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • commutare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

commūtāre

  1. inflection of commūtō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
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