mitto.
to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge
Meaning & usage
to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge
to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand)
to announce, tell, report, send word, advise
to yield, furnish, produce, export
to put an end to
to let or bring out, put or send forth, send out, emit; let blood, bleed; utter a sound, speak, say
to throw, hurl, fling, cast, launch, send; throw down, sprinkle
to attend, guide, escort
to dedicate (a book or poem to someone to compliment them)
to dismiss, disregard
to pass over, forbear, cease
Where this word comes from
Likely from mītō via the so-called littera rule, from Proto-Italic *meitō, from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“exchange, remove”), an extension of the root *mey- (“change”). From the original meaning “to exchange” a semantic shift occurred to “to give, bestow” and then “to let go, send”. Cognate with South Picene meitims, meitimúm (“monument”, nom. and acc. sg. respectively). External cognates include Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “to become hostile, quarrel”), and Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inmaidjan, “to change”). Sihler explains the perfect form mīsī as a derivative of *mīss-, itself from *mīt-s-. Based on the attested hapax legomenon cōsmittō for committō, some reconstruct the root with an initial s-, but De Vaan regards the hapax as not trustworthy enough. If the root is reconstructed with an initial s-, then the term may connect to Proto-Germanic *smītaną.
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