admitto Latin · revision 4459

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [adˈmɪt.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [adˈmit.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admittō''' (present infinitive admittere, perfect active admīsī, supine admissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|mittō|t2=to send, let go]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) Lewis & Short take its first meaning as “to send to”, then “to let come to”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has the perfect infinitive ''admisse'', saying many have done shameful things for love.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its central sense was to let in visitors or allow someone to enter, as in Terence and Cicero, and specially to receive a lover.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to admit to an activity, a council or an office, and to put a male to a female for breeding, as in Varro's farming manual.^(OLD 2012) Of things it meant to let in light or water, to admit to the ears or the mind, and to permit or tolerate.^(OLD 2012) With guilt or a crime as object it meant to incur or commit: Terence's character asks what great crime he has committed.^(OLD 2012) Of horses it meant to let go at full speed, ''equō admissō'' in Cicero and Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval Latin used it of sending and of hastening as well as of admitting.^(MLW) [[en|admit]] is recorded in the late 14th century as “let in”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of committing deeds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of letting a visitor in.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of breeding animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''admit'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To let in, [[m|en|admit]], receive; to receive a lover.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To admit to an activity, office or rank.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To put to the female for breeding.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To let in, accept; to listen to; to allow, tolerate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To commit, [[m|en|perpetrate]]; to incur guilt.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To let go, give rein to a horse.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[admissārius]]

+ * [[admissiō]]

+ * [[admissiuus]]

+ * [[admissor]]

+ * [[admissum]]

+ * [[admissura]]

+ * [[admissus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mitto|alt=mittō]]

+ * [[en|admit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}