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intromitto

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [ɪn.troːˈmɪt.toː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [in.troˈmit.to][1]

Forms

intrōmittō (present infinitive intrōmittere, perfect active intrōmīsī, supine intrōmissum); third conjugation[1] Also written intrō mittō, and Plautus has the passive infinitive intrōmittier.[2][3]

Etymology

It is from intrō “inwards” and mittō “to send”.[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of letting someone in.[2] Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.[4]

Semantic evolution

It meant to let in, admit, as in Plautus, and to send or put in, introduce, as in Varro, Caesar, Livy and Tacitus.[2][5]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to send into, cause to enter.[6] It survives in Portuguese intrometer and Spanish entrometerse, and English borrowed it as intromit.[1]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.[2][4]
  • 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of putting in.[2][4]
  • c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it.[5][4]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To let in, admit.[2]
  2. To send in, put in, introduce.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  6. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson