permities
Latin
Alternative forms
- permiciēs (in manuscripts)
Etymology
Uncertain:
- According to Forssman (1999), syncopated from earlier *pere/imitiēs, from *per-em-o- (“destroying”) + -itiēs, a derivative of Proto-Italic *per-emō (whence Latin perimō).
- Alternatively, according to Wachter (2004), from Proto-Italic *per-mitō (whence Latin permittō) + -iēs.[1]
Often conflated by manuscripts and lexicographers with perniciēs.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛrˈmɪ.ti.eːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [perˈmit.t͡si.es]
Noun
permitiēs f (genitive permitiēī); fifth declension (Old Latin)
- (only attested in glosses) ruin, destruction, death
- c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 327:
- PERMITIES generis feminini. Lucilius Satyrarum lib. II:
pestem permitiemque catax quam et Maniu' nobeis.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- PERMITIES generis feminini. Lucilius Satyrarum lib. II:
- c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 223:
- PERMITIES, periculum, exitium. Lucilius lib. XXVIIII: / non tu / contraheris ? volgi imperiis versere necessest, / nec sine permitie.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- PERMITIES, periculum, exitium. Lucilius lib. XXVIIII: / non tu / contraheris ? volgi imperiis versere necessest, / nec sine permitie.
- (derogatory, Plautine) as a term of abuse
- c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 1.1.1–3:
- Exi e culina sis foras, mastigia,
qui mi inter patinas exhibes argutias.
Egredere, erilis permities, ex aedibus.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Exi e culina sis foras, mastigia,
- c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 1.3.136–138:
- Perge tu.
— Sacrilege. — Fateor. — Periure. — Vetera vaticinamini.
— Legirupa. — Valide. — Permities adulescentum.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Perge tu.
- c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 1.2.3–7:
- Bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es;
at malo cum tuo, nam iam ex hoc loco
ibo ego ad tres viros vostraque ibi nomina
faxo erunt, capitis te perdam ego et filiam,
perlecebrae, permities, adulescentum exitium.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es;
Declension
Fifth-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | permitiēs |
| genitive | permitiēī |
| dative | permitiēī |
| accusative | permitiem |
| ablative | permitiē |
| vocative | permitiēs |
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “permitiēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460
Further reading
- “permities”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “permities”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.