dimittamus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dimitto, dimittere, dimisi, dimissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
send away/off; allow to go, let go/off; disband, discharge, dismiss (soldiers);; dissolve (assembly); part with; put away; divorce; pay off, settle (debt);; release, set free; allow to escape/slip away; shake off/scatter/shed;; discontinue, renounce, abandon/forsake, forgo, give up (activity); dispatch;
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
- M
Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quam gravitatem animi atque constantiam. quare illam quidem dimittamus et suis se finibus tenere iubeamus, ne blanditiis eius..." - T
Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...militibus uenerimus et praesidia in singulas urbes dimittamus. ad hanc interrogationem tuam et non respondere, uereor, ne superbum..."