demissus Latin · revision 31581

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈmɪs.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈmis.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēmissus''' (feminine dēmissa, neuter dēmissum, comparative dēmissior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the past participle of [[dēmittō|t=to let down, lower]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ⟨dēmittō⟩ is from [[m|la|dē-]] and [[mittō|t=to let go, send]], which de Vaan derives from [[ine-pro|*m(e)ith₂-|t=to exchange, remove]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Terence.^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius uses it of the moon's lower course, further from the sky.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is low or low-lying, and in Varro of a person stooping close to the ground; it is also sloping down, as the scythes in Curtius that slanted down from both sides, and hanging down, as a tunic reaching to the ankles.^(OLD 2012) Of people it is lowly, living in humble obscurity, as in Sallust; abject, as when Cicero calls it the mark of a narrow, abject mind to scorn a triumph; or modest and subdued, of an orator's style.^(OLD 2012) It also means dejected: Cicero describes a man who from cheerful and happy had become humbled and downcast.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for lowly, humble.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the moon's low course.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of dejection and of a subdued style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of a lowly life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Low, low-lying.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Sloping down; of clothes, hanging down.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Lowly, [[m|en|humble]]; abject, mean; modest, unassuming.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|dejected]], [[m|en|downcast]], despondent.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēmittō]]

+ * [[mittō]]

+ * [[humilis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}