The corpus record — Latin

immutatio

immutatio · f

a change

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Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Oratore 5 · 0.83/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Institutio Oratoria 5 · 0.29/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

immūtātĭo — Lewis & Short

immūtātĭo (inm-), ōnis, f.immuto,

I a change, exchanging, interchange, substitution of one thing for another in speech: verborum, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 16: ordinis, id. de Or. 3, 44, 176: si verborum immutationibus utantur, quos appellant tro/pous, id. Brut. 17, 69.—

B Esp., rhet. t. t., metonymy, the indirect naming of any thing = a)lloiwsis, metwnumi/a: immutationes nusquam crebriores, i. e. metonymies, id. Or. 27, 94; id. de Or. 3, 54, 207; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 35: faciebat barbarismos immutatione, cum c pro g uteretur, id. 1, 5, 12; cf. ib. 6.

In the wild

immutatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.12
immutationes Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.32.p6
immutationem Cicero, De Oratore 2.256
immutatione Cicero, De Oratore 3.176
immutatione Cicero, De Oratore 3.114
immutatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.6

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Where it came from

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