permities Latin · revision 6065

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [pɛrˈmɪ.ti.eːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [perˈmit.t͡si.es]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''permitiēs''' ''f'' (genitive permitiēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is disputed.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Forssman derives it from an adjective *per-em-o- “destroying”, from the verb of [[perimō]] “to destroy”, with an abstract suffix -itiēs and syncope.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Wachter instead reconstructs *per-mit-iēs from a verb “to send to ruin”, related to Old Latin [[m|la|mitat]] and [[mittō]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The OLD and Gaffiot treat it as a variant of [[perniciēs]], while Lewis and Short call it a distinct word, and Forssman explains ''perniciēs'' as a remake of ''permitiēs'' after [[nex]] “death” and [[necō]] “to kill”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, who uses it in the opening of the ''Mostellaria''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant deadly harm, ruin, destruction, and of a person a source of ruin, a pest, as Plautus' abuse of a slave.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Accius has the genitive ''permitī''.^(OLD 2012) Its derivative ''permitiālis'' “destructive” is found from Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a person.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius has the derivative ''permitiālis''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Deadly harm, [[m|en|ruin]], destruction.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of persons)'' A source of destruction, [[m|en|pest]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[permitiālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emō]]

+ * [[mittō]]

+ * [[nex]]

+ * [[perniciēs]]

+ * [[perimō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}