mutant

See also: Mutant

English

Etymology

From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːtənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmju(t)n̩(t)/
• Hyphenation: mu‧tant

Noun

mutant (plural mutants)

1. (genetics) That which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
   • 1918, Paul Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson, Applied Eugenics‎^[1]:

     Furthermore, it is possible that there occasionally arises what may be called a mutant of very desirable character from a eugenic point of view.

   • 1922, John Burroughs, The Last Harvest‎^[2]:

     There does seem to have been some mutation among plants […] but in animal life where are the mutants? When or where has a new species originated in this way?

   • 1953, E. Everett Evans, Man of Many Minds‎^[3]:

     "How did I ever get such ability?" he wondered. "No one else in our family has it. Am I some sort of a mutant? But if so, how or why? I never heard Dad or Mother mention it."

2. (informal) Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

   Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!

3. (computing) Synonym of mutex

Translations

something that has mutated

• Bulgarian: мутант m (mutant)
• Catalan: mutant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 突變體／突变体 (tūbiàntǐ)

• Czech: mutant (cs) m
• Dutch: mutant (nl)
• Esperanto: mutaciinto
• Estonian: mutant (et)
• Finnish: mutantti (fi)
• French: mutant (fr) m
• Galician: mutante m or f
• German: Mutant (de) m, Mutantin (de) f, Mutante (de) f (genetics)
• Greek: μεταλλαγμένος (el) m (metallagménos)
• Hungarian: mutáns (hu)
• Indonesian: mutan (id)
• Italian: mutante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 突然変異体 (とつぜんへんいたい, totsuzenhen'itai)
• Persian: جهش‌یافته (jaheš-yâfte)
• Polish: mutant (pl) m
• Portuguese: mutante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: mutant (ro) m, mutantă f
• Russian: мута́нт (ru) m (mutánt)
• Serbo-Croatian: mùtant (sh) m
• Slovene: mutanta f
• Spanish: mutante (es) m
• Swahili: mutanti class 9/10, mwenye chembe za urithi zilizobadilika class 1/2, mwenye mabadiliko ya kinasaba class 1/2
• Swedish: mutant c
• Tagalog: ibanyuhay

Adjective

mutant (not comparable)

1. (genetics) Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.

   mutant DNA

   • 2018 April 16, Damian Carrington, “Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles—by accident.

   • 2020 November 8, Ian Sample, “UK scientists seek mutant Covid samples from Danish mink farms”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     Researchers at the SSI found that antibodies from people who recovered from coronavirus were less effective at neutralising the mutant strain, but have not made details of their experiments public.

2. (informal) Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

   Your mutant brother just growled at me again!

   • 2020 August 26, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson blames ‘mutant algorithm’ for exams fiasco”, in The Guardian‎^[6]:

     Boris Johnson got an angry response after telling school pupils that the exam results crisis was caused by a “mutant algorithm” and he was glad it had been “sorted out”.

Translations

mutant: mutating, that has mutated

• Bulgarian: изменящ се (izmenjašt se)
• Catalan: mutant
• Esperanto: mutaciinta
• Galician: mutante
• German: mutierend (de), mutiert (de)
• Hungarian: mutáns (hu)
• Persian: جهش‌یافته (jaheš-yâfte)
• Spanish: mutante (es)
• Swahili: ambaye chembe za urithi zilibadilika, mwenye mabadiliko ya kinasaba class 1/2, ya kimutanti

Derived terms

• mutant disco
• mutant protein

 

Related terms

• mutate
• mutation

Further reading

• “mutant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “mutant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Verb

mutant

1. gerund of mutar

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian мутант (mutant).

Noun

mutant

1. mutant

Declension

Declension of mutant

	singular	plural
nominative	mutant	mutantlar
genitive	mutantnıñ	mutantlarnıñ
dative	mutantqa	mutantlarğa
accusative	mutantnı	mutantlarnı
locative	mutantta	mutantlarda
ablative	mutanttan	mutantlardan

References

• “mutant”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmutant]

Noun

mutant m anim

1. mutant

Declension

Declension of mutant (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	mutant	mutanti
genitive	mutanta	mutantů
dative	mutantovi, mutantu	mutantům
accusative	mutanta	mutanty
vocative	mutante	mutanti
locative	mutantovi, mutantu	mutantech
instrumental	mutantem	mutanty

Related terms

• See motiv

• mutace
• mutovat

 

Further reading

• “mutant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mutant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mutant/, [muˈtˢanˀd̥]

Noun

mutant c (singular definite mutanten, plural indefinite mutanter)

1. mutant (something that has mutated)

Inflection

Declension of mutant

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mutant	mutanten	mutanter	mutanterne
genitive	mutants	mutantens	mutanters	mutanternes

Synonyms

• mutation

Further reading

• mutant on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mutans, present participle of mutare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myˈtɑnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mu‧tant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

mutant m (plural mutanten, diminutive mutantje n)

1. mutant

Related terms

• mutatie
• muteren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

mutant (feminine mutante, masculine plural mutants, feminine plural mutantes)

1. mutant

Participle

mutant

1. present participle of muter

Further reading

• “mutant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

mūtant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of mūtō

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.tant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utant
• Syllabification: mu‧tant

Noun

mutant m animal

1. mutant

Declension

Declension of mutant

	singular	plural
nominative	mutant	mutanty
genitive	mutanta	mutantów
dative	mutantowi	mutantom
accusative	mutanta	mutanty
instrumental	mutantem	mutantami
locative	mutancie	mutantach
vocative	mutancie	mutanty

Further reading

• mutant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mutant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mutant.

Noun

mutant m (plural mutanți)

1. mutant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mutant	mutantul		mutanți	mutanții
genitive-dative	mutant	mutantului		mutanți	mutanților
vocative	mutantule			mutanților

Swedish

Noun

mutant c

1. a mutant

Declension

Declension of mutant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mutant	mutants
	definite	mutanten	mutantens
plural	indefinite	mutanter	mutanters
	definite	mutanterna	mutanternas

Related terms

• mutation
• mutera

See also

• mutagen

References

• mutant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mutant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mutant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)