Latin

Verb

committō ‎(present infinitive committere, perfect active commīsī, supine commissum); third conjugation

1. I commit.
2. I begin.
3. I carry on.
4. I commence (a battle).

Inflection

Descendants

References

• committo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• committo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “committo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set out on a journey: viae se committere
    
  • to trust to luck: fortunae se committere
    
  • to entrust a thing to a person's good faith: committere aliquid alicui or alicuius fidei
    
  • to put oneself entirely in some one's hands: totum se committere, tradere alicui
    
  • to commit crime: scelus facere, committere
    
  • to do a criminal deed: facinus facere, committere
    
  • to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere
    
  • to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
    
  • to take care not to..: non committere, ut...
    
  • (1) to begin the battle, (2) to give battle: proelium committere
    
• committo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016