missio

Internationalism (see English mission), ultimately from Latin missiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmisːio/, [ˈmis̠ːio̞]
• Rhymes: -isːio
• Syllabification^(key): mis‧si‧o

missio

1. mission

From mittō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.si.oː/, [ˈmɪs̠ːioː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.si.o/, [ˈmisːio]

missiō f (genitive missiōnis); third declension

1. sending, mission
2. dismissal
3. (military) discharge
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1:

     […] dum ne quem militem legeret ex eo numero quibus senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negasset ante belli finem.

     […] provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war

4. quarter, mercy

Third-declension noun.

• “missio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “missio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• missio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• missio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “missio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “missio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin