# mitis
## English
### Etymology

Perhaps from Latin mitis (“mild”).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

mitis (uncountable)
* (attributive) A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay.
* The malleable iron produced by this technique.

### Anagrams

* simit

## Latin
### Etymology

Of unclear origin, with multiple competing theories.
The prevailing etymology connects Old Irish méth (“plump, fat”), Welsh mwyd (“act of soaking”), Welsh mwydion (“soft parts”) (from Proto-Celtic *meitos (“soft, plump”)); Old Irish mín (“soft; gentle, smooth; mild, tender, calm”) (Proto-Celtic *mīnis); and Old Irish moíth (“soft, tender”) (Proto-Celtic *moitos), together from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”). Other potential Indo-European cognates also point to a meaning like “pleasant”: Sanskrit मयस् (máyas, “pleasure, enjoyment, refreshment”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (maiiah, “pleasure”), Proto-Slavic *mìlъ (“soft, mild, gentle, agreeable, pleasant, sweet, dear”), Lithuanian mielas (“nice, sweet, cute”), Latvian mīls (“dear, cherished, beloved”), Old Prussian mijls (“dear”). De Vaan suggests that the root *meyh₁- is actually *meh₁i-, being originally an extension of *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Alternatively, Oettinger compares Hittite 𒈠𒀀𒄿𒀭𒍣 (ma-a-i-an-zi, “to grow (up); to prosper”), reconstructing Proto-Indo-European *meyH- (“to ripen”); Kloekhorst rejects this on both semantic and formal grounds.
Plötz suggests it to be a zero-grade extension of the prohibitive particle *meh₁i, specifically labeling it a derivative from *mh₁i-tis.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmiː.tis/, [ˈmiːt̪ɪs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmi.tis/, [ˈmiːt̪is]

### Adjective

mītis (neuter mīte, comparative mītior, superlative mītissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
* mild, mellow, mature, ripe; sweet, juicy, succulent
* (of the soil) light, fruitful, mellow.
* (of a river) calm, gentle, placid
    Synonyms: placidus, lentus, lēnis
* (of the weather) peaceful, pleasant, clement, calm
    Synonyms: misericors, tranquillus, placidus, quietus, clemens
    Antonyms: violēns, obstreperus, clāmātōrius, trux, ferōx, atrōx, silvāticus, ācer
* (figuratively) soft, tolerable, meek, peaceful, gentle, mild
** Jerome, Vulgate Mt 5, 4:Beātī mītēs: quoniam ipsī possidēbunt terramBlessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth

#### Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “sweet, mellow, soft; peaceful”): immītis

#### Derived terms

* immītis
* mītificō
* mītigō

#### Related terms

* mītificus
* mītigābiliter
* mītiganter
* mītigātiō
* mītigātīvus
* mītigātōrius

#### Descendants

* Italian: mite, mezzo
* → English: mitis

### References

* “mitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Oettinger, Norbert (1979) Die Stammbildung des hethitischen Verbums (Erlanger Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kunstwissenschaft; 64), Nürnberg, page 471
* Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 244
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “mēto-, *mēti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 270
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “moyto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 279
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mītis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 383
* ↑ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “mai-$^i$ / mi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 540–541
* ↑ Plötz, O. (2017). The (PIE?) prohibitive particle *mē: soft approaches. Vienna: 3rd Indo-European colloquium. Pg 3.

## Volapük
### Noun

mitis
* accusative plural of mit