intermissio Latin · revision 33205

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intermissiō''' ''f'' (genitive intermissiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|intermittō|-tiō|t1=to leave off, interrupt]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) [[m|la|intermittō]] is a compound of [[m|la|inter|t=between]] and [[m|la|mittō|t=to let go, send]].^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) of a break from work in the forum and in the phrase ''sine ulla intermissione'', “without any break”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a break in something continuous, a pause, and in the courts an adjournment.^(OLD 2012) Cicero, in the ''Hortensius'', has “without the least interval of time”.^(OLD 2012) Celsus uses it, in the plural, of the intermissions of a fever and of the gaps in a spreading skin disease.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The jurist Ulpian has a servitude divided by an interval of time.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin keeps “ceasing, intermission”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|intermission]] comes from it, first in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, “without any break”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of the intermissions of a fever.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian, of an interval of time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|intermission]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A break, [[m|en|interruption]], pause, [[m|en|intermission]]; an [[m|en|adjournment]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(medicine)'' The intermission of a fever; a lucid interval.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An interval of time.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A gap in space.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[intermittō]]

+ * [[mittō]]

+ * [[intervallum]]

+ * [[en|intermission]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}