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Latin
Etymology
From inter- (“among”) + misceō (“mix”).
Pronunciation
Verb
intermisceō (present infinitive intermiscēre, perfect active intermiscuī, supine intermixtum); second conjugation
- to mix among, intermix, intermingle
c. 35 BCE,
Horace,
Satires (book 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
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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.