The corpus record — Latin

manumitto

to release from one's power

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
Divus Augustus 5 · 3.73/10k
De Pudicitia 4 · 2.98/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 1 · 1.74/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 3 · 1.32/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mănūmitto — Lewis & Short

mănūmitto (also as two words,

I v. infra; and ante-class. manu emitto, v. emitto, I. B.), mīsi, missum, 3, v. a. 1. manus-mitto, to release from one's power (manus), to set at liberty, to enfranchise, emancipate, make free a slave (v. manumissio): quos (servos) nisi manumisisset, Cic. Mil. 22, 58: sunt servi de cognatorum sententiā manumissi, id. Cael. 29, 68; id. Fam. 13, 77, 3: testamento manumissi, Tac. A. 13, 32: quos proxime inter amicos manumisisti, Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 4.—Separated by other words: orabo, ut manu me mittat, Plaut. Aul. 5, 4: manu vero cur miserit? Cic. Mil. 22, 57: manu non mittere, Liv. 41, 9, 11 fin.

In the wild

manumissa Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 57
manumisit Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.4
manumissus Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.6.13
manumitterentur Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p16
manumissa Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p13
manumisso Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 1.2.3

6 of 51 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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