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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''remissē''' (comparative remissius)^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|remissus|-ē|t1=slack, relaxed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The adjective is the past participle of [[m|la|remittō|t=to send back, slacken]], a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|mittō|t=to send, let go]], which goes back to [[ine-pro|*m(e)ith₂-|t=to exchange, remove]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who has it of a line delivered without vehemence: ''quam leniter, quam remisse, quam non actuose!'', “how gently, how calmly, how without action!”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it of prose whose rhythm is loose rather than bound, of speaking calmly and without passion, of living more at ease, of treating someone mildly rather than severely, and pejoratively of pressing a matter with less force.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Columella advises that a bailiff should give orders neither too slackly nor cruelly.^(OLD 2012) Medieval British writers used it of something done less intensely and of a string sounding flat in pitch.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a calm style of speaking and of mild treatment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of slack discipline.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Not tightly, [[m|en|loosely]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # Without vehemence, [[m|en|calmly]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Unconstrainedly; not seriously, light-heartedly.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Slackly, half-heartedly; with lax [[m|en|discipline]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|mildly|alt=Mildly]], [[m|en|leniently]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, of musical pitch)'' [[m|en|flat|alt=Flat]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}