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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la mittō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [aːˈmɪt.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [aˈmit.to]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''āmittō''' (present infinitive āmittere, perfect active āmīsī, supine āmissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Terence has ''āmīstī'' for ''āmīsistī'', and Plautus ''āmīssis'' for ''āmīseris''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ab-]] “away” and [[mittō]] “to send, let go”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of sending someone away.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Plautus it meant to send away, to let go, release, to give up, to forgive a fault, to let slip, and to be parted from someone.^(OLD 2012) In Vitruvius it meant to let fall, in Terence to lose possessions, and in Cicero to lose troops in war, to lose a lawsuit, and to lose the use of something.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''āmittere'' is to lose something so that it ceases to be ours, opposed to ''retinēre''.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to send away, disperse, pardon.^(Stelten 1995) It is behind the obsolete [[en|amit]] “to lose”.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sending away and letting slip.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of losing possessions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of losing troops and lawsuits.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To send away; to let go, release.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To let fall.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To give up; to forgive.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To let slip, miss.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|lose]]; to [[m|en|forfeit]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To lose (a lawsuit, troops).^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[amissibilis]]
+ * [[āmissiō]]
+ * [[amissus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[mittō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}