intermitto
Latin
Etymology
From inter ("between") + mittō ("to send").
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.terˈmit.toː/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈmit.to/, [in̪t̪erˈmit̪ːo]
Verb
intermittō (present infinitive intermittere, perfect active intermīsī, supine intermissum); third conjugation
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: intermit
- Italian: intermettere
- German: intermittieren
- Old French: entremetre
- Spanish: entremeterse
- Swedish: intermittera
References
- “intermitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intermitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intermitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
- to work without intermission: laborem non intermittere
- not to leave off work for an instant: nullum tempus a labore intermittere
- not to interrupt the march: iter non intermittere
- to interrupt the battle: proelium intermittere
- to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)