transmutatio

trāns- +‎ mūtātiō (or trānsmūtō +‎ -tiō), post-Augustean. First attested in the late 1st century..

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans.muːˈtaː.ti.oː/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠muːˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans.muˈtat.t͡si.o/, [t̪ränzmuˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

trānsmūtātiō f (genitive trānsmūtātiōnis); third declension

1. (grammar) transposition
   • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.39:

     trānsmūtātiōne, quā ōrdō turbātur

     By transposition, by which the order [of words] is confused

2. changing, variability, alteration, transmutation
   • Vulgata—Epistula Jacobi 1.17:

     Omne datum optimum, et omne donum perfectum desursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio, nec vicissitudinis obumbratio.

     Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variability, nor shadow of turning.

Third-declension noun.

• trānsmūtō

• “transmutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transmutatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.