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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of immittō.
Participle
immissus (feminine immissa, neuter immissum); first/second-declension participle
- sent in, into, on or against; having been, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.669–670:
- nōn aliter, quam sī immissīs ruat hostibus omnīs
Karthāgō aut antīqua Tyrōs .- not unlike – as if by every foe having been sent in against it – Carthage, or ancient Tyre, were toppling in ruins .
- inserted, introduced or admitted
- hurled or thrown in
- let loose
- allowed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “immissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “immissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- immissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.