inmutatio

immūtātĭo ( inm- ), ōnis, f. [immuto], 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 tropous, id. Brut. 17, 69.—

B.

Esp., rhet. t. t., metonymy, the indirect naming of any thing = alloiôsis, metônumia:

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.