permitto
Latin
Etymology
From per- (“through, along; during”) + mittō (“let go, release; send out; throw”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /perˈmit.toː/, [pɛrˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈmit.to/, [perˈmit̪ːo]
Verb
permittō (present infinitive permittere, perfect active permīsī, supine permissum); third conjugation
- I let go, let loose.
- Synonyms: immittō, parcō, praetereō, omittō, āmittō, remittō, neglegō
- I cast, hurl, throw; send away, export.
- Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, abiciō, iaculor, iaciō, iactō, trāiciō, impingō, ēmittō, mittō
- (figuratively, with dative) I give leave, give up, allow, suffer, grant, permit, surrender, let.
- Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, linquō, dēsinō, sinō, dēstituō, dēficiō, oblīvīscor, cēdō, dissimulō, trādō, addīcō, praetereō, neglegō, pōnō, reddō, dō, remittō, condōnō, tribuō
Conjugation
| Conjugation of permittō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | permittō | permittis | permittit | permittimus | permittitis | permittunt |
| imperfect | permittēbam | permittēbās | permittēbat | permittēbāmus | permittēbātis | permittēbant | |
| future | permittam | permittēs | permittet | permittēmus | permittētis | permittent | |
| perfect | permīsī | permīsistī | permīsit | permīsimus | permīsistis | permīsērunt, permīsēre | |
| pluperfect | permīseram | permīserās | permīserat | permīserāmus | permīserātis | permīserant | |
| future perfect | permīserō | permīseris | permīserit | permīserimus | permīseritis | permīserint | |
| passive | present | permittor | permitteris, permittere | permittitur | permittimur | permittiminī | permittuntur |
| imperfect | permittēbar | permittēbāris, permittēbāre | permittēbātur | permittēbāmur | permittēbāminī | permittēbantur | |
| future | permittar | permittēris, permittēre | permittētur | permittēmur | permittēminī | permittentur | |
| perfect | permissus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | permissus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | permissus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | permittam | permittās | permittat | permittāmus | permittātis | permittant |
| imperfect | permitterem | permitterēs | permitteret | permitterēmus | permitterētis | permitterent | |
| perfect | permīserim | permīserīs | permīserit | permīserīmus | permīserītis | permīserint | |
| pluperfect | permīsissem | permīsissēs | permīsisset | permīsissēmus | permīsissētis | permīsissent | |
| passive | present | permittar | permittāris, permittāre | permittātur | permittāmur | permittāminī | permittantur |
| imperfect | permitterer | permitterēris, permitterēre | permitterētur | permitterēmur | permitterēminī | permitterentur | |
| perfect | permissus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | permissus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | permitte | — | — | permittite | — |
| future | — | permittitō | permittitō | — | permittitōte | permittuntō | |
| passive | present | — | permittere | — | — | permittiminī | — |
| future | — | permittitor | permittitor | — | — | permittuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | permittere | permīsisse | permissūrum esse | permittī | permissum esse | permissum īrī | |
| participles | permittēns | — | permissūrus | — | permissus | permittendus, permittundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| permittendī | permittendō | permittendum | permittendō | permissum | permissū | ||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- permissiō
- permissor
- permissum
- permissus
Related terms
Related terms
- admittō
- āmittō
- circummittō
- committō
- dēmittō
- dīmittō
- ēmittō
- immittō
- intermittō
- intrōmittō
- mittō
- omittō
- praemittō
- praetermittō
- prōmittō
- remittō
- submittō
- supermittō
- trānsmittō
Descendants
- Catalan: permetre
- English: permit
- French: permettre
- Italian: permettere
- Portuguese: permitir
- Romanian: permite
- Spanish: permitir
References
- “permitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “permitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- permitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to slacken the reins: habenas permittere
- to give a horse the reins: admittere, permittere equum
- to put the matter entirely in some one's hands: arbitrio alicuius omnia permittere
- to put the matter entirely in some one's hands: omnium rerum arbitrium alicui permittere
- to put oneself under some one's protection: se conferre, se tradere, se permittere in alicuius fidem
- to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
- to give some one unlimited power in state affairs: rem publicam alicui permittere
- to give up one's person and all one's possessions to the conqueror: se suaque omnia permittere victoris potestati
- to surrender oneself to the discretion of some one: se permittere in fidem atque in potestatem alicuius (B. G. 2. 3)
- to make one's submission to some one: in alicuius potestatem se permittere
- to slacken the reins: habenas permittere