transmissus

Forms

trānsmissus m (genitive trānsmissūs); fourth declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin trānsmittō (“to send across, cross”) + -tus, a fourth-declension noun of action.^[2][3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its first author is Pacuvius, in the sense “handing over”: Tegeae nunc nemorālis rēgnum potītur trānsmissū patris, “now he holds the kingdom of wooded Tegea by his father's handing it over”.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

Caesar uses it of the crossing between two lands, saying that Ireland lies at the same distance across as Britain does from Gaul.^[2][5][4] Gellius reports that Sallust called the crossing of the sea by ships trānsgressus.^[4]

Timeline

• 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of a father handing over his kingdom.^[2][3]
• c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of the crossing to Britain and Ireland.^[2][3]
• c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of a crossing by ships.^[2][3]

Meanings

Noun

1. A crossing, passage to the other side.^[2][5][4]
2. A handing over, transfer, bequest.^[2][5]

Usage notes

trānsmissus is also the past participle of trānsmittō.^[5][6]

References

1. ^ 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. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier