submitto Latin · revision 7484

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''submittō''' (present infinitive submittere, perfect active submīsī, supine submissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[sub-]] “under, up from below” and [[mittō]] “to send, let go”.^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline) It is also spelled ⟨summittō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Varro, of rearing animals.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to let plants or hair grow, to rear animals, and in Lucretius of the earth to send up plants and to emit light.^(OLD 2012) It meant to send help, reinforcements, as in Caesar, and in Cicero to send secretly.^(OLD 2012) From Lucretius it meant to lower, let down, and in Catullus to bend the knee in submission, and to lower the fasces before the people.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to lower the voice or soften one's language, and to lower oneself, condescend.^(OLD 2012) From Livy it meant to make subject, and reflexively to submit, bow down, as in Ovid.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to send as a replacement.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to let down, lower, reduce, substitute, submit, dispatch.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|submit]] came in the late 14th century, “to place oneself under another's control”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of lowering and of sending up plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of making subject.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To let grow; to rear (animals).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To send up, put forth; to emit.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To send as help, [[m|en|reinforce]]; to send secretly.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To lower, let down; to bow in submission.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To lower (the voice); to moderate; to play down.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make subject; to [[m|en|submit]], yield.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To lower oneself, [[m|en|condescend]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To send as a replacement.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[submissim]]

+ * [[submissiō]]

+ * [[submissus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mittō]]

+ * [[en|submit]]

+ * [[en|submission]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}