permisceo Latin · revision 30949

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *meyḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈmɪs.ke.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈmiʃ.ʃe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''permisceō''' (present infinitive permiscēre, perfect active permiscuī, supine permixtum or permistum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The participle is ''permixtus'' or ''permistus''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|per-|misceō|t2=to mix]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨misceō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*mik-sk-e/o-|t=to mix]] and [[ine-pro|*miḱ-sk-e/o-]], cognate with [[grc|μείγνυμι|tr=meígnumi|t=to mix]], [[lt|maišýti|t=to mix]] and [[ang|miscian|t=to mix]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato, in a recipe: ''ōvum ūnum addito et ūnā permiscētō bene'', “add one egg and mix well”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to mix thoroughly, of ingredients and of immaterial things, as Cicero's fortune mixed with toil and misery.^(OLD 2012) Of people it is to bring together closely, as Sallust's light troops mixed in with the cavalry, to unite by kinship (Sallust on the Africans), and to embroil in events (Lucan).^(OLD 2012) It is to mix up or confound, as war chariots throwing ranks into disorder, and in Cicero to treat as the same or merge accounts.^(OLD 2012) It is to throw into confusion: Pericles was said to thunder, lighten and throw Greece into turmoil, and Apuleius has a guilty man confused by his conscience.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “mix, commingle”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of mixing ingredients.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of mixing troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of confounding and of Pericles stirring up Greece.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of a confused mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To mix thoroughly, [[m|en|mingle]], blend.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To bring together; to unite (by kinship); to [[m|en|embroil]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To mix up, [[m|en|confound]]; to merge.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To throw into confusion, disturb; to bewilder.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[impermisceō]]

+ * [[impermixtus]]

+ * [[permixtim]]

+ * [[permixtiō]]

+ * [[permixtē]]

+ * [[permistus]]

+ * [[permixtus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admisceō]]

+ * [[commisceō]]

+ * [[ēmisceō]]

+ * [[immisceō]]

+ * [[intermisceō]]

+ * [[misceō]]

+ * [[prōmiscuus]]

+ * [[remisceō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}