missio

Internationalism (see English mission), ultimately from Latin missiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmisːio/,
• Rhymes: -isːio
• Hyphenation^(key): mis‧sio

missio

1. mission

• “missio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From mittō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.si.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.si.o/,

missiō f (genitive missiōnis); third declension

1. sending, mission
2. dismissal
3. (military) discharge
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     dum ne quem militem legeret ex eo numero quibus senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negasset ante belli finem.

     provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war

4. quarter, mercy

Third-declension noun.

• “missio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “missio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• missio 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)
• missio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “missio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “missio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin