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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la mittō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [eːˈmɪt.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈmit.to]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ēmittō''' (present infinitive ēmittere, perfect active ēmīsī, supine ēmissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ex-]] “out” and [[mittō]] “to send”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of sending out and releasing.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to send out, dispatch, to release from custody, and to let loose for a race or battle, as in Plautus, and in Caesar to shoot missiles.^(OLD 2012) In Livy it meant to let out liquids, drain off, in Vitruvius to give off light or heat, in Columella of plants to put forth, and in Pliny the Elder to extend lines.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to send out, cast out, yield, release.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''emettere'', French ''émettre'' and Spanish ''emitir'', and gave [[en|emit]] in the 1620s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sending out and releasing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of shooting missiles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of giving off heat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1620s – English ''emit'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To send out, dispatch.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To release, set free; to let loose.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To shoot (missiles).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To let out, drain off.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To give off, [[m|en|emit]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Of plants, to put forth.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[ēmissārius]]
+ * [[ēmissīcius]]
+ * [[ēmissiō]]
+ * [[ēmissor]]
+ * [[ēmissus]]
+ * [[ēmissīvus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[mittō]]
+ * [[en|emit]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}