The meaning "to take off clothes and put on other ones" is from late 15c. Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. especially as "to give an equivalent for in smaller parts of the same kind" (money). 1300 as "undergo alteration, become different." In part an abbreviation of exchange. as "to become different, be altered" (intransitive), from Old French changier "to change, alter exchange, switch," from Late Latin cambiare "to barter, exchange," extended form of Latin cambire "to exchange, barter." This is held to be of Celtic origin, from PIE root *kemb- "to bend, crook" (with a sense evolution perhaps from "to turn" to "to change," to "to barter") cognate with Old Irish camm "crooked, curved " Middle Irish cimb "tribute," cimbid "prisoner " see cant (n.2).įrom c. Synonyms for CHANGE: alteration, conversion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformation, transmutation, transmogrification Antonyms for. as "to make (something) other than what it was, cause to turn or pass from one state to another " from late 13c.
as "to substitute one for another " mid-13c. 1200, "to alter, make different, change" (transitive) early 13c.
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