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Latin
Noun
ēmissārius m (genitive ēmissāriī or ēmissārī); second declension
- emissary, scout, spy
- shoot, young branch
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
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References
- “emissarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “emissarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- emissarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- emissarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.