transmitto Latin · revision 7500

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānsmittō''' (present infinitive trānsmittere, perfect active trānsmīsī, supine trānsmissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[trāns-]] “across” and [[mittō]] “to send”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) It is also spelled ⟨trāmittō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of sending a person over to someone.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to send or pass over from one place or person to another, to send across, as Caesar's cavalry carried across a river, and to extend across.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) From Cicero it meant to cross, especially a stretch of water, and intransitively to cross over.^(OLD 2012) It meant to allow to cross, as in Livy, and in Celsus and Pliny the Elder to let pass through, strain, and of light and sound to transmit.^(OLD 2012) In Seneca it meant to let time pass, in Tacitus to pass over in silence, and in Pacuvius to hand over possession or rights.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to send across, transmit, transfer.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|transmit]] came about 1400, and [[en|transmission]] in the 1610s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sending a person over.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of handing over.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of crossing the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''transmit'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To send across, pass over; to extend across.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|cross]] (a stretch of water); to cross over.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To let cross; to let pass through, strain; of light and sound, to [[m|en|transmit]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To let time pass; to pass over in silence.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To hand over, [[m|en|transfer]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trānsmissiō]]

+ * [[trānsmissus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mittō]]

+ * [[en|transmit]]

+ * [[en|transmission]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}