missio

Etymology

Internationalism (see English mission), ultimately from Latin missiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmisːio/, [ˈmis̠ːio̞]
• Rhymes: -isːio
• Hyphenation^(key): mis‧sio

Noun

missio

1. mission

Further reading

• “missio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Etymology

From mittō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.si.oː/, [ˈmɪs̠ːioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.si.o/, [ˈmisːio]

Noun

missiō f (genitive missiōnis); third declension

1. sending, mission
2. dismissal
3. (military) discharge
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     […] dum ne quem militem legeret ex eo numero quibus senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negasset ante belli finem.

     […] provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war

4. quarter, mercy

References

• “missio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “missio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• missio 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)
• missio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “missio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “missio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin