intermitto

From inter ("between") + mittō ("to send").

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.terˈmit.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈmit.to/,

intermittō (present infinitive intermittere, perfect active intermīsī, supine intermissum); third conjugation

1. to interrupt
2. to stop (temporarily)
3. to omit
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:

     militesque hortaretur, ne quod omnino tempus ab opere intermitteretur

     And he encouraged the soldiers not to omit to work for a moment

• → English: intermit
• Italian: intermettere
• → German: intermittieren
• Old French: entremetre
• Spanish: entremeterse
• → Swedish: intermittera

• “intermitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intermitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intermitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
    
  • to work without intermission: laborem non intermittere
    
  • not to leave off work for an instant: nullum tempus a labore intermittere
    
  • not to interrupt the march: iter non intermittere
    
  • to interrupt the battle: proelium intermittere