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Latin
Etymology
From per- (“through, along; during”) + mittō (“let go, release; send out; throw”).
Pronunciation
Verb
permittō (present infinitive permittere, perfect active permīsī, supine permissum); third conjugation
- to let go, let loose
- Synonyms: immittō, parcō, praetereō, omittō, āmittō, remittō, neglegō
- to cast, hurl, throw; send away, export
- Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, abiciō, iaculor, iaciō, iactō, trāiciō, impingō, ēmittō, mittō
- (figuratively, with dative) to give leave, give up, allow, suffer, grant, permit, surrender, let
- Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, linquō, dēsinō, sinō, dēstituō, dēficiō, oblīvīscor, cēdō, dissimulō, trādō, addīcō, praetereō, neglegō, pōnō, reddō, dō, remittō, condōnō, tribuō
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References
- “permitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “permitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- permitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to slacken the reins: habenas permittere
- to give a horse the reins: admittere, permittere equum
- to put the matter entirely in some one's hands: arbitrio alicuius omnia permittere
- to put the matter entirely in some one's hands: omnium rerum arbitrium alicui permittere
- to put oneself under some one's protection: se conferre, se tradere, se permittere in alicuius fidem
- to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
- to give some one unlimited power in state affairs: rem publicam alicui permittere
- to give up one's person and all one's possessions to the conqueror: se suaque omnia permittere victoris potestati
- to surrender oneself to the discretion of some one: se permittere in fidem atque in potestatem alicuius (B. G. 2. 3)
- to make one's submission to some one: in alicuius potestatem se permittere