missus
See also: Missus
English
Etymology
Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.
Pronunciation
Noun
missus (plural missuses)
- (colloquial) Wife.
- Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.
- The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.
- (colloquial) Term of address for a woman.
- 2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer (page 161)
- Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.
- 2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer (page 161)
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
wife
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of mittō (“send”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmis.sus/, [ˈmɪs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmis.sus/, [ˈmisːus]
Participle
missus (feminine missa, neuter missum); first/second-declension participle
- sent, having been sent, caused to go, having been caused to go
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25
- et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Rafahel ut curaret ambos quorum uno tempore fuerat oratio in conspectu Domini recitata (And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.)
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25
- let go, having been let go, released, having been released, discharged, having been discharged
- thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched
- sent out, having been sent out, emitted, having been emitted
- uttered, having been uttered
- dismissed, having been dismissed, disregarded, having been disregarded
- put to an end, having been put to an end
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | missus | missa | missum | missī | missae | missa | |
Genitive | missī | missae | missī | missōrum | missārum | missōrum | |
Dative | missō | missō | missīs | ||||
Accusative | missum | missam | missum | missōs | missās | missa | |
Ablative | missō | missā | missō | missīs | |||
Vocative | misse | missa | missum | missī | missae | missa |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “missus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “missus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- missus 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)
- missus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to speak without circumlocution: missis ambagibus dicere
- correspondence: litterae missae et allatae
- (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
- to speak without circumlocution: missis ambagibus dicere
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook