amissio Latin · revision 33744

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''āmissiō''' ''f'' (genitive āmissiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|āmittō|-tiō|t1=to let go, lose]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|āmittō]] is a compound of [[m|la|ā#1|t=away from]] and [[m|la|mittō|t=to send, let go]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) where a general defends himself over the loss of an army.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the fact of losing, a loss.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it several times in Cicero and rarely elsewhere, and the TLL notes that it is absent from Varro, Caesar, Nepos, Sallust and the poets but becomes commoner later.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Cicero speaks of the loss of all one's property, of towns, of rank, of the senses, of friends, and of a fleet.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder has the loss of leaves, Seneca the loss of friends and children, and the jurist Ulpian the loss of citizenship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate has the loss of a man's two eyes and the promise in Acts that no life will be lost.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps “loss”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of the loss of an army.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the loss of property, rank and friends.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of the loss of leaves.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of the loss of two eyes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A losing, [[m|en|loss]], [[m|en|deprivation]]: of property, of a faculty or quality, of persons by death or separation, of an army or town.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mittō]]

+ * [[iactūra]]

+ * [[damnum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes [[āmittō]] “to lose” so that a thing is no longer ours, the opposite of ''retinēre'', from ''perdō'' “to lose” so that it is destroyed and made useless, the opposite of ''servāre''.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}