Etymologically

transmissus

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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