demitto

Latin

Etymology

From de- (“from, away from, down from”) +‎ mittō (“send; emit; throw, cast”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈmit.toː/, [d̪eːˈmɪt̪ːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈmit.to/, [d̪eˈmit̪ːo]

Verb

dēmittō (present infinitive dēmittere, perfect active dēmīsī, supine dēmissum); third conjugation

1. to send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall
2. to sink, lower, put down

   Synonyms: dēmergō, immergō, summergō, mergō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.32:

     Animadvertit Caesar unos ex omnibus Sequanos nihil earum rerum facere quas ceteri facerent sed tristes capite demisso terram intueri.

     Caesar noticed that the Sequani were the only people of all who did none of those things which the others did, but, with their heads bowed down, gazed on the earth in sadness.

3. to cast down, throw, thrust, plunge, drive
4. (with se) to let oneself down, stoop, descend, walk or ride down
5. (military) to send, bring or lead soldiers down into a lower place
6. (figuratively) to cast down, demote; depress, dispirit
7. (figuratively) to engage in, enter or embark upon, meddle with

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dēmittō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dēmittō		dēmittis		dēmittit		dēmittimus		dēmittitis		dēmittunt
	imperfect	dēmittēbam		dēmittēbās		dēmittēbat		dēmittēbāmus		dēmittēbātis		dēmittēbant
	future	dēmittam		dēmittēs		dēmittet		dēmittēmus		dēmittētis		dēmittent
	perfect	dēmīsī		dēmīsistī		dēmīsit		dēmīsimus		dēmīsistis		dēmīsērunt, dēmīsēre
	pluperfect	dēmīseram		dēmīserās		dēmīserat		dēmīserāmus		dēmīserātis		dēmīserant
	future perfect	dēmīserō		dēmīseris		dēmīserit		dēmīserimus		dēmīseritis		dēmīserint
passive	present	dēmittor		dēmitteris, dēmittere		dēmittitur		dēmittimur		dēmittiminī		dēmittuntur
	imperfect	dēmittēbar		dēmittēbāris, dēmittēbāre		dēmittēbātur		dēmittēbāmur		dēmittēbāminī		dēmittēbantur
	future	dēmittar		dēmittēris, dēmittēre		dēmittētur		dēmittēmur		dēmittēminī		dēmittentur
	perfect	dēmissus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	dēmissus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	dēmissus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dēmittam		dēmittās		dēmittat		dēmittāmus		dēmittātis		dēmittant
	imperfect	dēmitterem		dēmitterēs		dēmitteret		dēmitterēmus		dēmitterētis		dēmitterent
	perfect	dēmīserim		dēmīserīs		dēmīserit		dēmīserīmus		dēmīserītis		dēmīserint
	pluperfect	dēmīsissem		dēmīsissēs		dēmīsisset		dēmīsissēmus		dēmīsissētis		dēmīsissent
passive	present	dēmittar		dēmittāris, dēmittāre		dēmittātur		dēmittāmur		dēmittāminī		dēmittantur
	imperfect	dēmitterer		dēmitterēris, dēmitterēre		dēmitterētur		dēmitterēmur		dēmitterēminī		dēmitterentur
	perfect	dēmissus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	dēmissus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		dēmitte		—		—		dēmittite		—
	future	—		dēmittitō		dēmittitō		—		dēmittitōte		dēmittuntō
passive	present	—		dēmittere		—		—		dēmittiminī		—
	future	—		dēmittitor		dēmittitor		—		—		dēmittuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		dēmittere			dēmittī			dēmittēns			—
future		dēmissūrum esse			dēmissum īrī			dēmissūrus			dēmittendus, dēmittundus
perfect		dēmīsisse			dēmissum esse			—			dēmissus
future perfect		—			dēmissum fore			—			—
perfect potential		dēmissūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		dēmittendī		dēmittendō		dēmittendum		dēmittendō		dēmissum		dēmissū

Derived terms

• dēmissē
• dēmissīcius
• dēmissiō
• dēmissus

Related terms

• admittō
• āmittō
• circummittō
• committō
• dīmittō
• ēmittō
• immittō
• intermittō
• intrōmittō
• mittō
• omittō
• permittō
• praemittō
• praetermittō
• prōmittō
• remittō
• submittō
• supermittō
• trānsmittō

Descendants

• Catalan: demetre
• English: demit
• French: démettre
• Portuguese: demitir

References

• “demitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “demitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• demitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bow one's head: caput demittere
    
  • to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
    
  • to lose courage; to despair: animum demittere
    
  • to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
    

Portuguese

Verb

demitto

1. first-person singular present indicative of demittir