English
commissure
Commissure comes from Latin commissura ‘a joining or connecting together’, from commissus ‘committed, having been committed’, and ultimately from mittō ‘to send’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommittō‘commit’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissus‘committed, having been committed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissura‘a joining or connecting together’
- Englishearliest quotation 1734commissure
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommittō‘commit’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissus‘committed, having been committed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissura‘a joining or connecting together’
- Englishearliest quotation 1734commissure
Earliest quotation: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout: “...that round about the commissure of all our joints...”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’
remission, unremitting, 21 more
through Old Latin mītō
permission, transmission, admission, submission, emission, remit, omission, 23 more
through Latin mittō ‘to send’
admit, mission, mess, missile, transmit, premise, dismiss, intermittent, emit, amit, omit, permissive, remiss, missive, 36 more
through Latin committō ‘commit’
Today it means
noun The joint between two bones.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / commissure