demitto

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		dēmittere	dēmīsisse	dēmissūrum esse	dēmittī	dēmissum esse	dēmissum īrī
participles		dēmittēns	—	dēmissūrus	—	dēmissus	dēmittendus, dēmittundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		dēmittendī	dēmittendō	dēmittendum	dēmittendō	dēmissum	dēmissū

Derived terms

Derived terms

• dēmissē
• dēmissīcius
• dēmissiō
• dēmissus

Related terms

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