missio Latin · revision 4100

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmɪs.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmis.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''missiō''' ''f'' (genitive missiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mittō|-tiō|t1=to let go, send]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ''Mittō'' continues Old Latin [[m|la|mītō]] and [[itc-pro|*meitō]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, in the Tusculan Disputations, speaks of what a captive gave in return for his release.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a letting go: release from captivity, and the discharge of soldiers or sailors from service, as in Cicero's Verrines and in Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It also meant quarter or mercy.^(Wiktionary) It also meant the sending of persons or things, as Cicero's sending of envoys or of letters, the shooting of missiles and their range in Vitruvius, and Suetonius' letting of blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In law, ''missio in possessionem'' was admission to the possession of property.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Christian and medieval Latin it meant a mission, an offering to the priest at Mass, costs, and a drove of animals.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) English ''mission'' is recorded in the 1590s, first of Jesuits sent abroad.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of release and of sending envoys.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of discharge.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of the range of missiles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English ''mission'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Release, liberation.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|discharge]] from service.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Mercy, [[m|en|quarter]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # The shooting of missiles; range.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Sending, dispatch.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' Admission to rights or possession.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|mission]]; an offering at Mass.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[manumissio]]

+ * [[missa]]

+ * [[missāticum]]

+ * [[missīcius]]

+ * [[missiculō]]

+ * [[missilis]]

+ * [[missitō]]

+ * [[missor]]

+ * [[missōrium]]

+ * [[missum]]

+ * [[mitto]]

+ * [[en|mission]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}