dimittimus
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. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...Latinum esse, "plura" barbarum. Ad Capitonem igitur te dimittimus. Ex eo id quoque simul disces, si modo assequi..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...scriptis reposuimus velut custodire desinimus et ipsa securitate dimittimus. X. Nec dubium est quin plurimum in hac parte..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...numina, Musas; et te, Phoebe, choris et te dimittimus, Euhan; tu quoque muta ferae, volucer Tegeaee, sonorae terga..."