Latin

Verb

dēmittō ‎(present infinitive dēmittere, perfect active dēmīsī, supine dēmissum); third conjugation

1. I send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, sink, lower, put down, let fall.
2. I cast down, throw, thrust, plunge, drive.
3. (with se) I let myself down, stoop, descend, walk or ride down.
4. (military) I send, bring or lead soldiers down into a lower place.
5. (figuratively) I cast down, demote; depress, dispirit.
6. (figuratively) I engage in, enter or embark upon, meddle with.

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• Catalan: demetre
• English: demit
• French: démettre
• Portuguese: demitir

References

• demitto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• demitto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “demitto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bow one's head: caput demittere
    
  • to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
    
  • to lose courage; to despair: animum demittere
    
  • to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
    

Portuguese

Verb

demitto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of demittir