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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 365.committō on page 365
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committere to entrust
committere is a Latin Verb that primarily means to entrust.
Definitions for committere
Wheelock's Latin
Verb
- 1
to entrust, commit
English derivatives:
committee commission commissary commitment noncomissioned noncom
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Verb
- 1
To bring into contact (with); to bring together.
- 2
To join together, join up, make continuous; (pass. of lines) to intersect. (b) to weld together (a broken object); to fill up, close (a break or gap). (c) to connect words in sense or syntax, collate; to interconnect or weld together (matters in a speech). (d) to consider or take together, combine. (e) to make (periods of time) continuous.
- 3
To make by putting together, construct.
- 4
To join (one thing to another). connect, attach; (esp. topographical features, parts of the body).
- 5
To engage (forces in battle (also transf.): (a) (w. pugnae, proelio, etc.). (b) (w. hosti, cum hoste, and sim). (c) (a. acc. only, or pass.; also absol.). (d) to engage (opposing forces).
Sentences with committere
Latin to English
Cīvem laudāvērunt cui patriam commīserant.Compare They praised the citizen to whom they had entrusted the country.
Multōs ex cīvibus laudāvērunt quibus patriam commīserant.Compare They praised many of the citizens to whom they had entrusted the country.
Virō cuius fīliam amās vītam suam commīsit.Compare He entrusted his own life to the man whose daughter you (sg) love.
Vītam meam committam eīs virīs quōrum virtūtēs laudābās.Compare I shall entrust my life to those men whose virtues you were praising.
Sicilia atque Africa, sine qui urbs atque Italia tueor non possum, vester fides committo.Compare He has entrusted to your fidelity Sicily and Africa, without which he cannot defend the city and Italy.
En qui tuus liberi committo!Compare Behold the man to whom you are to entrust your children!
Res quidam tragicus actor, qui et alius committo assuesco incaute aperio.Compare He incautiously divulges the affair to a certain tragic actor, to whom he had been accustomed to entrust other things as well.
Quattuor eques vita suus committo audeo.Compare He dared to entrust his life to four horsemen.
Conjugation table for committere
Cactus2000
| ACTIVE | |
| Indicative present | Indicative imperfect |
| committō committis committit committimus committitis committunt | committēbam committēbās committēbat committēbāmus committēbātis committēbant |
| Indicative perfect | Indicative pluperfect |
| commīsī commīsistī commīsit commīsimus commīsistis commīsērunt / commīsēre | commīseram commīserās commīserat commīserāmus commīserātis commīserant |
| Indicative future | Indicative future perfect |
| committam committēs committet committēmus committētis committent | commīserō commīseris commīserit commīserimus commīseritis commīserint |
| Subjunctive present | Subjunctive imperfect |
| committam committās committat committāmus committātis committant | committerem committerēs committeret committerēmus committerētis committerent |
| Subjunctive perfect | Subjunctive pluperfect |
| commīserim commīseris commīserit commīserimus commīseritis commīserint | commīsissem commīsissēs commīsisset commīsissēmus commīsissētis commīsissent |
Infinitive present committere Infinitive perfect commīsisse Infinitive future commissūrum esse | Imperative present committe committite Imperative future committitō committitō committitōte committuntō |
| PASSIVE | |
| Indicative present | Indicative imperfect |
| committor committeris committitur committimur committiminī committuntur | committēbar committēbāris / committēbāre committēbātur committēbāmur committēbāminī committēbantur |
| Indicative perfect | Indicative pluperfect |
| commissus sum commissus es commissus est commissī sumus commissī estis commissī sunt | commissus eram commissus erās commissus erat commissī erāmus commissī erātis commissī erant |
| Indicative future | Indicative future perfect |
| committar committēris / committēre committētur committēmur committēminī committentur | commissus erō commissus eris commissus erit commissī erimus commissī eritis commissī erunt |
| Subjunctive present | Subjunctive imperfect |
| committar committāris / committāre committātur committāmur committāminī committantur | committerer committerēris / committerēre committerētur committerēmur committerēminī committerentur |
| Subjunctive perfect | Subjunctive pluperfect |
| commissus sim commissus sīs commissus sit commissī sīmus commissī sītis commissī sint | commissus essem commissus essēs commissus esset commissī essēmus commissī essētis commissī essent |
Infinitive present committī Infinitive perfect commissum esse Infinitive future commissum īrī | Imperative present committere committiminī Imperative future committitor committitor - committuntor |
| PARTICIPLE | ||
| Participle present active | ||
| Nom. | committēns | committentēs |
| Gen. | committentis | committentium |
| Dat. | committentī | committentibus |
| Acc. | committentem | committentēs |
| Abl. | committente | committentibus |
| Participle future active | ||
| Nom. | commissūrus | commissūrī |
| Gen. | commissūrī | commissūrōrum |
| Dat. | commissūrō | commissūrīs |
| Acc. | commissūrum | commissūrōs |
| Abl. | commissūrō | commissūrīs |
| Participle perfect passive | ||
| Nom. | commissus | commissī |
| Gen. | commissī | commissōrum |
| Dat. | commissō | commissīs |
| Acc. | commissum | commissōs |
| Abl. | commissō | commissīs |
| Gerundive | ||
| Nom. | committendus | committendī |
| Gen. | committendī | committendōrum |
| Dat. | committendō | committendīs |
| Acc. | committendum | committendōs |
| Abl. | committendō | committendīs |
| Gerund | Supine | |
| Nom. | committere | commissum |
| Gen. | committendī | commissū |
| Dat. | committendō | |
| Acc. | committendum | |
| Abl. | committendō | |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 100.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 365.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "committō, committere, commīsī, commissum (v.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/committo-committere-commisi-commissum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 100.committō, committere, commīsī, commissum on page 100
