emissarius

Latin

Etymology

Related to emissio and emissus.

Noun

ēmissārius m (genitive ēmissāriī or ēmissārī); second declension

  1. emissary, scout, spy
  2. shoot, young branch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ēmissārius ēmissāriī
genitive ēmissāriī
ēmissārī1 		ēmissāriōrum
dative ēmissāriō ēmissāriīs
accusative ēmissārium ēmissāriōs
ablative ēmissāriō ēmissāriīs
vocative ēmissārie ēmissāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Russian: эмиссар (emissar)

See also

References

  • “emissarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “emissarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "emissarius", 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)
  • emissarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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