intermisceo

intermisceo

Latin

Etymology

    From inter- (among) + misceō (mix).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    intermisceō (present infinitive intermiscēre, perfect active intermiscuī, supine intermixtum); second conjugation

    1. to mix among, intermix, intermingle
      • c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.10.27:
        Scilicet oblitus patriaeque patrisque Latini,
        cum Pedius causas exsudet Poplicola atque
        Corvinus, patriis intermiscere petita
        verba foris malis, Canusini more bilinguis.
        • 2005 translation by A. S. Kline
          Would you really prefer to forget home and country,
          And while Pedius Publicola and Corvinus sweat
          Over their cases in Latin, mingle foreign words
          With your own, like the twin-tongued Canusians?

    Conjugation

    • The fourth principal part may be intermixtum or intermistum.

    Derived terms

    References

    • intermisceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • intermisceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • intermisceo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.