demitto
Latin
Etymology
From de- (“from, away from, down from”) + mittō (“send; emit; throw, cast”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈmit.toː/, [d̪eːˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈmit.to/, [d̪eˈmit̪ːo]
Verb
dēmittō (present infinitive dēmittere, perfect active dēmīsī, supine dēmissum); third conjugation
- I send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall.
- I sink, lower, put down
- Synonyms: dēmergō, immergō, summergō, mergō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō
- I cast down, throw, thrust, plunge, drive.
- (with se) I let myself down, stoop, descend, walk or ride down.
- (military) I send, bring or lead soldiers down into a lower place.
- (figuratively) I cast down, demote; depress, dispirit.
- (figuratively) I engage in, enter or embark upon, meddle with.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of dēmittō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēmittō | dēmittis | dēmittit | dēmittimus | dēmittitis | dēmittunt |
| imperfect | dēmittēbam | dēmittēbās | dēmittēbat | dēmittēbāmus | dēmittēbātis | dēmittēbant | |
| future | dēmittam | dēmittēs | dēmittet | dēmittēmus | dēmittētis | dēmittent | |
| perfect | dēmīsī | dēmīsistī | dēmīsit | dēmīsimus | dēmīsistis | dēmīsērunt, dēmīsēre | |
| pluperfect | dēmīseram | dēmīserās | dēmīserat | dēmīserāmus | dēmīserātis | dēmīserant | |
| future perfect | dēmīserō | dēmīseris | dēmīserit | dēmīserimus | dēmīseritis | dēmīserint | |
| passive | present | dēmittor | dēmitteris, dēmittere | dēmittitur | dēmittimur | dēmittiminī | dēmittuntur |
| imperfect | dēmittēbar | dēmittēbāris, dēmittēbāre | dēmittēbātur | dēmittēbāmur | dēmittēbāminī | dēmittēbantur | |
| future | dēmittar | dēmittēris, dēmittēre | dēmittētur | dēmittēmur | dēmittēminī | dēmittentur | |
| perfect | dēmissus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dēmissus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | dēmissus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēmittam | dēmittās | dēmittat | dēmittāmus | dēmittātis | dēmittant |
| imperfect | dēmitterem | dēmitterēs | dēmitteret | dēmitterēmus | dēmitterētis | dēmitterent | |
| perfect | dēmīserim | dēmīserīs | dēmīserit | dēmīserīmus | dēmīserītis | dēmīserint | |
| pluperfect | dēmīsissem | dēmīsissēs | dēmīsisset | dēmīsissēmus | dēmīsissētis | dēmīsissent | |
| passive | present | dēmittar | dēmittāris, dēmittāre | dēmittātur | dēmittāmur | dēmittāminī | dēmittantur |
| imperfect | dēmitterer | dēmitterēris, dēmitterēre | dēmitterētur | dēmitterēmur | dēmitterēminī | dēmitterentur | |
| perfect | dēmissus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dēmissus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dēmitte | — | — | dēmittite | — |
| future | — | dēmittitō | dēmittitō | — | dēmittitōte | dēmittuntō | |
| passive | present | — | dēmittere | — | — | dēmittiminī | — |
| future | — | dēmittitor | dēmittitor | — | — | dēmittuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | dēmittere | dēmīsisse | dēmissūrum esse | dēmittī | dēmissum esse | dēmissum īrī | |
| participles | dēmittēns | — | dēmissūrus | — | dēmissus | dēmittendus, dēmittundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dēmittendī | dēmittendō | dēmittendum | dēmittendō | dēmissum | dēmissū | ||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- dēmissē
- dēmissīcius
- dēmissiō
- dēmissus
Related terms
Related terms
- admittō
- āmittō
- circummittō
- committō
- dīmittō
- ēmittō
- immittō
- intermittō
- intrōmittō
- mittō
- omittō
- permittō
- praemittō
- praetermittō
- prōmittō
- remittō
- submittō
- supermittō
- trānsmittō
Descendants
- Catalan: demetre
- English: demit
- French: démettre
- Portuguese: demitir
References
- “demitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “demitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- demitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bow one's head: caput demittere
- to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
- to lose courage; to despair: animum demittere
- to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
- to bow one's head: caput demittere
Portuguese
Verb
demitto
- first-person singular present indicative of demittir