admitto
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [adˈmɪt.toː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ad̪ˈmit̪.t̪o]
Verb
admittō (present infinitive admittere, perfect active admīsī, supine admissum); third conjugation
- to let in, admit
- Synonyms: sufferō, perferō, sustineō, dūrō, perpetior, subeō, recipiō, accipiō, sinō, patiō, sustentō, ferō
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.13:
- Vīve cum servō clēmenter, cōmiter quoque, et in sermōnem illum admitte et in cōnsilium et in convictum.
- Live with a slave mercifully, and even courteously, and admit him into conversation, into counsel, and into your banquet.
- Vīve cum servō clēmenter, cōmiter quoque, et in sermōnem illum admitte et in cōnsilium et in convictum.
- to perpetrate, commit
Conjugation
Conjugation of admittō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “admitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “admitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “admitto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give a horse the reins: admittere, permittere equum
- to admit a person into one's society: aliquem socium admittere
- to obtain an audience of some one: (ad colloquium) admitti (B. C. 3. 57)
- to commit some blameworthy action: facinus, culpam in se admittere
- to give a horse the reins: admittere, permittere equum