English

Proper noun

Missus

1. (informal) Mrs, a form of address for a married woman.

English

Noun

missus ‎(plural missuses)

1. (colloquial) Wife.

   Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.

   The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.

Synonyms

• Mrs. (US, Canada)
• Mrs (UK)

Translations

Coordinate terms

• miss
• mister
• mistress
• madam
• maiden
• maid
• master
• matron

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of mittō ‎(“send”).

Participle

missus m ‎(feminine missa, neuter missum); first/second declension

1. sent, having been sent, caused to go, having been caused to go
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25

     et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Rafahel ut curaret ambos quorum uno tempore fuerat oratio in conspectu Domini recitata (And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.)

2. let go, having been let go, released, having been released, discharged, having been discharged
3. thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched
4. sent out, having been sent out, emitted, having been emitted
5. uttered, having been uttered
6. dismissed, having been dismissed, disregarded, having been disregarded
7. put to an end, having been put to an end

Inflection

First/second declension.

Related terms

• missa
• missiō

Descendants

• English: mess
• French: mis
• Old French: mets, mes
• Italian: messo

References

• missus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• missus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MISSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “missus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to speak without circumlocution: missis ambagibus dicere
    
  • correspondence: litterae missae et allatae
    
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est