admissum Latin · revision 34625

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd/1st century BC, Laevius|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admissum''' ''n'' (genitive admissī); second declension^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|admittō|t=to let in; to commit]], the neuter of its perfect participle used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|mittō|t=to send]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*meit-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*m(e)ith₂-|t=to exchange, remove]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Conte give Laevius as its first author,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Conte 2010) with the sense “a [[m|en|crime]], misdeed”.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero speaks of judgements that can be incurred without any offence, Livy of such a crime and Tacitus of the misdeeds of Poppaea;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Ovid has it in the ''Metamorphoses'' and the ''Heroides''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lucretius has it of a shameful act, and Tacitus uses ''male admissa'' still with some participial force.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Georges 1913) In the Digest it stands beside ''delicta'' for military offences,^(Georges 1913) and Tertullian and other Christian writers continue to use it.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd/1st century BC – Laevius uses it.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of an offence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy speaks of such a crime.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus speaks of the crimes of Poppaea.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|crime]], [[m|en|offence]], misdeed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The TLL lists as near-synonyms [[commissum]], [[crimen]], [[culpa]], [[delictum]], [[facinus]], [[flagitium]], [[peccatum]] and [[scelus]].^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}