promissum

From promissus, from promittō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈmis.sum/, [proːˈmɪs̠ːʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈmis.sum/, [proˈmisːum]

prōmissum n (genitive prōmissī); second declension

1. promise

   Synonyms: pollicitum, prōmissiō, crēdentia, fidēs

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.685–686:

     [...] illa deum prōmissō lūdit inānī
     et stultam dubiā spem trahit usque morā.

     She tricks the god with an empty promise,
     and prolongs his foolish hope with dubious delay.
     (The elderly goddess Anna Perenna amused herself by deceiving Mars after he sought her help in wooing Minverva.)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

prōmissum

1. accusative supine of prōmittō

• “promissum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “promissum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• promissum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to abide by one's undertaking: promisso stare
    
  • (ambiguous) to fulfil a promise: fidem (promissum) praestare