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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of summittō.
Participle
summissus (feminine summissa, neuter summissum); first/second-declension participle
- placed underneath
- put forth, presented
- reared, raised
- moderated, restrained
- humble, unassuming
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “summissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- summissus 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)
- summissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a gentle, subdued voice: vox lenis, suppressa, summissa