mitto
Pronunciation: [ˈmɪt.toː]
“mitto” is a Latin word. Its 11 meanings in English:
verb
- to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge
- to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand)
- to announce, tell, report, send word, advise
- to yield, furnish, produce, export
- to put an end to
- to let or bring out, put or send forth, send out, emit; let blood, bleed; utter a sound, speak, say
- to throw, hurl, fling, cast, launch, send; throw down, sprinkle
- to attend, guide, escort
- to dedicate (a book or poem to someone to compliment them)
- to dismiss, disregard
- to pass over, forbear, cease
In Latin
- (Generatim) efficere aliquid ire, ire iubere, allegare quempiam ad aliquem, rem ad alium preferendam curare.
- iacere, emittere, conicere, iactare, iaculari praecipue missile
- emittere, fundere, exuere, spargere
- clamare, emittere
- deicere, demittere, relinquere
- manumittere, relinquere
- dimittere de officio
- (silentio) praeterire
- arcessere, invitare, vocare
- praetermittere, dimittere, relinquere
- dedicare
- ferre, parere, gignere
Etymology
Likely from mītō via the so-called littera rule, from Proto-Italic *meitō, from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“exchange, remove”), an extension of the root *mey- (“change”). From the original meaning “to exchange” a semantic shift occurred to “to give, bestow” and then “to let go, send”. Cognate with South Picene meitims, meitimúm (“monument”, nom. and acc. sg. respectively). External cognates…
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