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Latin
Etymology
From inter ("between") + mittō ("to send").
Pronunciation
Verb
intermittō (present infinitive intermittere, perfect active intermīsī, supine intermissum); third conjugation
- to interrupt
- to stop (temporarily)
- to omit
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “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