summissus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of summittō.

Participle

summissus (feminine summissa, neuter summissum); first/second-declension participle

1. placed underneath
2. put forth, presented
3. reared, raised
4. moderated, restrained
5. humble, unassuming

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	summissus	summissa	summissum		summissī	summissae	summissa
Genitive	summissī	summissae	summissī		summissōrum	summissārum	summissōrum
Dative	summissō		summissō		summissīs
Accusative	summissum	summissam	summissum		summissōs	summissās	summissa
Ablative	summissō	summissā	summissō		summissīs
Vocative	summisse	summissa	summissum		summissī	summissae	summissa

Descendants

• French: soumis
• Italian: sommesso
• Romanian: sumes

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a gentle, subdued voice: vox lenis, suppressa, summissa