committo
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈmit.toː/, [kɔmˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈmit.to/, [komˈmit̪ːo]
Verb
[edit]committō (present infinitive committere, perfect active commīsī, supine commissum); third conjugation
- to join together, unite, connect, put together
- to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime
- to begin
- to carry on
- to commence a battle, fight
- to give, entrust, commit to, give up or resign to, trust
Conjugation
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “committo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “committo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- committo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to set out on a journey: viae se committere
- to trust to luck: fortunae se committere
- to entrust a thing to a person's good faith: committere aliquid alicui or alicuius fidei
- to put oneself entirely in some one's hands: totum se committere, tradere alicui
- to commit crime: scelus facere, committere
- to do a criminal deed: facinus facere, committere
- to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere
- to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
- to take care not to..: non committere, ut...
- (1) to begin the battle, (2) to give battle: proelium committere
- to set out on a journey: viae se committere
- committo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016