commute
English
/kəˈmjuːt/
verb
Definitions
- To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
- (intransitive) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin commūtō.
Origin
Latin
commūtō
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticommute English
- bicommutant English
- commutability English
- commutable English
- commutableness English
- commutant English
- commuter English
- commuter bus English
- commuterdom English
- commuterliner English
- commutive English
- counter-commute English
- cybercommuter English
- incommutable English
- noncommutability English
- noncommutable English
- noncommuter English
- postcommute English
- supercommuter English
- telecommute English
- telecommuter English
- commutatio Latin
- commūtō Latin
- commutare Italian
- commuter French
- conmutar Spanish, Castilian