Derived from the latin word comutare?

The Latin word "comutare" means "to change, to exchange, to alter". It's the root of many English words, including:

* Commute: To travel regularly between home and work. This refers to the exchange of your home for your workplace.

* Commutable: Able to be traveled to and from regularly.

* Commutation: The act of exchanging one thing for another, often a punishment for a lesser one.

* Commutative: A property of mathematical operations where the order of the operands does not affect the result (e.g., addition and multiplication are commutative).

* Commutator: A device in an electric motor that reverses the direction of current flow.

* Commutation: The act of exchanging one thing for another, often a punishment for a lesser one.

There may be other words derived from "comutare" that are not as common, but these are some of the most significant ones.