permitto

permitto

Latin

Etymology

    From per- (through, along; during) + mittō (let go, release; send out; throw).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    permittō (present infinitive permittere, perfect active permīsī, supine permissum); third conjugation

    1. to let go, let loose
      Synonyms: immittō, parcō, praetereō, omittō, āmittō, remittō, neglegō
    2. to cast, hurl, throw; send away, export
      Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, abiciō, spargō, iaculor, iaciō, iactō, trāiciō, impingō, ēmittō, mittō
    3. (figuratively, with dative) to 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, , remittō, condōnō, tribuō

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: permetre
    • Dutch: permitteren
    • English: permit
    • French: permettre
    • Galician: permitir
    • 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[1], 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