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Forms

ēmissus m (genitive ēmissūs); fourth declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin ēmittō (“to send out”) + -tus, an action noun formed on the stem of the past participle.[2][1][3] The base verb is built on mittō (“to send”),[4] which goes back to Proto-Italic *meit-e/o-.[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found only once in classical Latin, in Lucretius, of the tiny particles that are sent off from the surface of things: when they are thrown out, “nothing delays their emission”.[2][5][6]

Semantic evolution

The OLD treats it as an equivalent of ēmissiō, the usual word for a sending or throwing out,[2] and the TLL likewise refers to that noun.[5] Later dictionaries record no other author for it.[3][7][8]

Timeline

  • 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of particles thrown off from objects.[2][5][6]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A sending out, emission, discharge.[2][3][5]

Usage notes

The form ēmissus is far more often the past participle of ēmittō.[3][8] Niermeyer records a medieval adjective emissus meaning “deceitful”.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  6. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  7. ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  8. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  9. ^ Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill