# mitto
## Inari Sami
### Etymology

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### Noun

mitto
* measure

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Latin
### Etymology

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 to 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”).
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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmit.toː/, [ˈmɪt̪ːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmit.to/, [ˈmit̪ːo]

### Verb

mittō (present infinitive mittere, perfect active mīsī, supine missum); third conjugation
* 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
* (chiefly poetic) 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
    Synonyms: ēmittō, iaciō
* to throw, hurl, fling, cast, launch, send; throw down, sprinkle
    Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, abiciō, spargō, permittō, iaciō, iactō, iaculor, impingō, ēmittō, trāiciō, lībrō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.565–566:“Dēseruēre omnēs dēfessī, et corpora saltū ad terram mīsēre aut ignibus aegra dedēre.”“All [of my men], exhausted, had given up [the fight], and with a leap had flung [themselves] to the ground [below] or else consigned their weakened bodies to the flames.” (Syncopation: mīsēre, mīsēr[unt].)
* to attend, guide, escort
* to dedicate (a book or poem to someone to compliment them)
* to dismiss, disregard
** Vergil. Aeneid, VI, 85
    mitte hanc de pectore curam
       Dismiss this anxiety from your heart
* (chiefly poetic) to pass over, forbear, cease

#### Derived terms

* admittō
* āmittō
* antemittō
* circummittō
* committō
* comprōmittō
* dēmittō
* dīmittō
* ēmittō
* immittō
* intermittō
* intrōmittō
* manūmittō
* missa
* missālis
* missāticum
* missīcius
* missiculō
* missilis
* missiō
* missitō
* missīvus
* missor
* missōrium
* missum
* missus
* mittēns
* omittō
* permittō
* praemittō
* praetermittō
* prōmittō
* remittō
* submittō
* supermittō
* trānsmittō

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: meter
* Catalan: metre
* Dalmatian: metar, miater
* Franco-Provençal: metre
* French: mettre
* Friulian: meti
* Galician: meter
* Istriot: meti
* Italian: mettere
* Ladin: meter
* Neapolitan: mettere
* Norman: maette, mettre
* Occitan: metre, metar
* Portuguese: meter
* Romagnol: mètar
* Romansch: metter, meter
* Sardinian: míntere, míntiri, mintire
* Sicilian: mèttiri, mèntiri
* Spanish: meter
* Venetan: métar, meter

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mittō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 384
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “mission”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 968

### Further reading

* “mitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to send to meet a person: obviam alicui aliquem mittere to speak, utter a sound: vocem mittere (sonitum reddere of things) to dedicate a book to some one: librum mittere ad aliquem (Fin. 1. 3. 8) to write a letter to some one: epistulam (litteras) dare, scribere, mittere ad aliquem to send and consult the oracle at Delphi: mittere Delphos consultum to turn some one out of the house: foras mittere aliquem to send out colonists: colōnos mittere (Div. 1. 1. 3) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere to send to the war: mittere ad bellum (ambiguous) to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

A reduced form from Middle High German mittetac, from Old High German mittitac, from mitti (“middle”) + tac (“day”). Compare mitta (“Wednesday”).

### Noun

mitto m
* midday

#### Derived terms

* nomitto

### References

* “mitto” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Zou
### Adjective

mitto
* blind

#### References

* http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf