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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Accius|origins=la mittō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪmˈmɪt.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [imˈmit.to]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''immittō''' (present infinitive immittere, perfect active immīsī, supine immissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Also ''inmittō'', ''immīsse'' and ''immīstī'' stand for ''immīsisse'' and ''immīsistī''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[in-]] “in, against” and [[mittō]] “to send”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Accius, ''habēnās immittere'' “to give rein”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Accius 170–c. 90 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to send into a place, as in Varro; to send against with hostile purpose, as in Cicero's slaves sent to plunder a shrine; to throw, discharge, let fly, as in Lucretius; to loose death or other evils on someone; to direct water or air into something, as in Caesar; to put in, insert, as in Virgil; to let in, as in Livy; and to let go slack, ''habēnās immittere'', give free rein, often figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to send, insert, put into, cast, introduce.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''immettere''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it of slackening reins.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of sending in.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of sending against.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To send in; to send against.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To throw, let fly; to loose (evils) on.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To put in, [[m|en|insert]]; to let in.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To let go slack, ''habēnās immittere'' to give rein.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[immissārium]]
+ * [[immissiō]]
+ * [[immissus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[mittō]]
+ * [[dēmittō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}