summuto

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sum-mūto (subm-), āre, v. a.,

to change , interchange , substitute one thing for another: hanc ὑπαλλαγὴν rhetores, quia quasi summutantur verba pro verbis, μετωνυμίαν grammatici vocant, quod nomina transferuntur, Cic. Or. 27, 93.

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