Etymology

From con- +‎ mittō (“to send”)Category:Latin terms prefixed with con-#MITTO.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈmɪt.toː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#COMMITTOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#COMMITTO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈmit.to]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#COMMITTOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#COMMITTO

Verb

committō (present infinitive committere, perfect active commīsī, supine commissum)Category:Latin lemmas#COMMITTOCategory:Latin verbs#COMMITTOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#COMMITTOCategory:Pages with entries#COMMITTOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COMMITTO; third conjugation

1. to join together, unite, connect, put together

   Synonyms: contribuō, cōnectō, cōnserō, congerō, contrahō, convehō, cōnferō

2. to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime

   Synonyms: offendō, dēlinquō, lābor, errō

3. to begin

   Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, exorior, mōlior

   Antonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō

4. to carry on
5. to commence a battle, fight

   Synonyms: repugnō, pugnō, contendō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, serō, dēcertō

6. to give, entrust, commit to, give up or resign to, trust

   Synonyms: dēmandō, tribuō, trādō, reddō, dō, remittō, impertiō, addīcō, dēferō

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 609–610:

     PAMPHILUS: Servōne fortūnās meās mē commīsisse fūtilī? / Ergō pretium ob stultitiam ferō. Sed inultum numquam id auferet!

     PAMPHILUS: Was it not [unwise] for me to have entrusted my fortunes to a worthless slave? Therefore, I’m paying the price for my own foolishness. But he will never get off unpunished!

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#COMMITTO

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
• “committo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• committo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016