manumit

English

Etymology

From Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere, literally ‘send out from one’s hand’.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mænjʊˈmɪt/

Verb

manumit (third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)

To release from slavery, to free.
- 1985 Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing:
  Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted, she never entirely lost.

Synonyms

emancipate
liberate

Derived terms

manumission
manumitter

Related terms

mission

Translations

to free one's slave

Catalan: manumetre (ca)
Finnish: vapauttaa (fi)
French: manumission (fr), affranchissement (fr)
German: freisprechen (de), freilassen (de)
Hungarian: felszabadít (hu)
Italian: emancipare (it), affrancare (it), liberare (it)
Russian: освобожда́ть (ru) (osvoboždátʹ), отпуска́ть (ru) (otpuskátʹ)
Spanish: manumisión, liberación (es)