Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transmew

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: trans-mew
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To transmute, change.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Soone into other fits he was transmewed, / Till she to him her gratious speach renewed […]"
"[…] his sudden ruin ministered matter of most lamentable tears to his dear mother and loving sisters, insomuch, that they were pitifully changed, as some write, into alder trees, as some, into poplars. Sic flevit Clymene : sic et Clymeneides alta: as it might be the mournful church, and her wailing members, wofully transmewed into alders or poplars."

Etymology

From Middle French transmuer, from Latin transmūtāre.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

transmews (present, singular) transmewing (participle, present) transmewed (participle, past) transmewed (past)

Questions

What does transmew mean?: To transmute, change.
Where does transmew come from?: From Middle French transmuer, from Latin transmūtāre.

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