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dismissal

/dɪsˈmɪsəl/dih-SMIH-suhl
/dɪsˈmɪsəl/dih-SMIH-suhl

Meaninga sending away

Common meaning: sending someone off, above all ending their employment

‘apart, away’ + ‘to send, release’ → dismissal

Journey through time

  1. Latinmittō, mīsī, missum‘to send, release’
  2. Englishdismissal‘sending someone off, above all ending their employment’ · today

dis- also in: disarmdiscerndiscorddisdaindisgust

miss also in: emitdismisssubmissiondecommissionsubcommittee

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin mittō ‘to send, release’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry mittō, p. 1152 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

decommissiondismissemitsubcommitteesubmission

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