milito
Asturian
Catalan
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [miˈlito]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ito
- Hyphenation: mi‧li‧to
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Galician
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Latin
Etymology
From mīles (“soldier”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.li.toː/, [ˈmiːlʲɪt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li.to/, [ˈmiːlit̪o]
Verb
mīlitō (present infinitive mīlitāre, perfect active mīlitāvī, supine mīlitātum); first conjugation
- to be a soldier, to act as a soldier
- to wage war
- (Medieval Latin) to serve, discharge an office
- c. 1202, Ralph de Diceto, Ymagines historiarum, a. 1163:
- Asserit namque rex, juxta dignitatem regni, quod […] nullus militans regi […] est excommunicandus ab aliquo.
- For the king declares, according to the dignity of the kingship, that […] no one serving the king […] is to be excommunicated by anyone.
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References
- “milito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- militare 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)
- “milito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- milito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to teach some one letters: erudire aliquem artibus, litteris (but erudire aliquem in iure civili, in re militari)
- to possess great experience in military matters: magnum usum in re militari habere (Sest. 5. 12)
- (ambiguous) military age: aetas militaris
- (ambiguous) to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
- (ambiguous) to compel communities to provide troops: imperare milites civitatibus
- (ambiguous) to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
- (ambiguous) light infantry: milites levis armaturae
- (ambiguous) soldiers collected in haste; irregulars: milites tumultuarii (opp. exercitus iustus) (Liv. 35. 2)
- (ambiguous) mercenary troops: milites mercennarii or exercitus conducticius
- (ambiguous) to have had no experience in war: rei militaris rudem esse
- (ambiguous) to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites disciplina coercere
- (ambiguous) to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites coercere et in officio continere (B. C. 1. 67. 4)
- (ambiguous) to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere
- (ambiguous) to leave troops to guard the camp: praesidio castris milites relinquere
- (ambiguous) to harangue the soldiers: contionari apud milites (B. C. 1. 7)
- (ambiguous) to harangue the soldiers: contionem habere apud milites
- (ambiguous) to disembark troops: milites in terram, in terra exponere
- to teach some one letters: erudire aliquem artibus, litteris (but erudire aliquem in iure civili, in re militari)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “militare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 679
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈlito/ [miˈli.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: mi‧li‧to
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