manumitto
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Univerbation of the ablative manū (“from the hand”) and mittō (“to send”) used together.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ma.nuːˈmit.toː/, [mänuːˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma.nuˈmit.to/, [mänuˈmit̪ːo]
Verb edit
manūmittō (present infinitive manūmittere, perfect active manūmīsī, supine manūmissum); third conjugation
- to release, free, emancipate
Conjugation edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: manumetre
- English: manumit, manumission
- Galician: manumitir
- Italian: manomettere
- Portuguese: manumitir
- Sicilian: manumèttiri
- Spanish: manumitir
References edit
- “manumitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “manumitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- manumitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.