transmuter
English
Noun
transmuter (plural transmuters)
- One who, or that which, transmutes.
- 2002, Lawrence Principe, Lloyd DeWitt, Transmutations, page 8:
- Hopeful transmuters of metals thus became associated with counterfeiters and forgers. Accordingly, during his tour of the Inferno, Dante meets two alchemists deep in the eighth circle of Hell […]
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trānsmūtāre (infinitive trānsmūtāre). Doublet of transmuer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of transmuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | transmuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | transmutant /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | transmuté /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
transmutes /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
transmutons /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɔ̃/ |
transmutez /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/ |
transmutent /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
| imperfect | transmutais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/ |
transmutais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/ |
transmutait /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/ |
transmutions /tʁɑ̃s.my.tjɔ̃/ |
transmutiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tje/ |
transmutaient /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | transmutai /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/ |
transmutas /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta/ |
transmuta /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta/ |
transmutâmes /tʁɑ̃s.my.tam/ |
transmutâtes /tʁɑ̃s.my.tat/ |
transmutèrent /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | transmuterai /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁe/ |
transmuteras /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁa/ |
transmutera /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁa/ |
transmuterons /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɔ̃/ |
transmuterez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁe/ |
transmuteront /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | transmuterais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/ |
transmuterais /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/ |
transmuterait /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/ |
transmuterions /tʁɑ̃s.my.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transmuteriez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tə.ʁje/ |
transmuteraient /tʁɑ̃s.my.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
transmutes /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
transmutions /tʁɑ̃s.my.tjɔ̃/ |
transmutiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.tje/ |
transmutent /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
| imperfect2 | transmutasse /tʁɑ̃s.my.tas/ |
transmutasses /tʁɑ̃s.my.tas/ |
transmutât /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta/ |
transmutassions /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
transmutassiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.ta.sje/ |
transmutassent /tʁɑ̃s.my.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | transmute /tʁɑ̃s.myt/ |
— | transmutons /tʁɑ̃s.my.tɔ̃/ |
transmutez /tʁɑ̃s.my.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “transmuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
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