admitto
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /adˈmit.toː/, [äd̪ˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /adˈmit.to/, [äd̪ˈmit̪ːo]
Verb
admittō (present infinitive admittere, perfect active admīsī, supine admissum); third conjugation
- I let in, admit.
- I perpetrate, commit
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: admit, admittatur
- French: admettre, admittatur
- Italian: ammettere
- Portuguese: admitir
References
- “admitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “admitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- admitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give a horse the reins: admittere, permittere equum
- to admit a person into one's society: aliquem socium admittere
- to obtain an audience of some one: (ad colloquium) admitti (B. C. 3. 57)
- to commit some blameworthy action: facinus, culpam in se admittere
- to give a horse the reins: admittere, permittere equum