missus

See also: Missus

English

Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.

missus (plural missuses)

(colloquial) Wife.
Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.

The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.
(colloquial) Term of address for a woman.
- 2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer (page 161)
  Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.

wife

Perfect passive participle of mittō (“send”).

missus m (feminine missa, neuter missum); first/second declension

sent, having been sent, caused to go, having been caused to go
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25
  et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Rafahel ut curaret ambos quorum uno tempore fuerat oratio in conspectu Domini recitata (And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.)
let go, having been let go, released, having been released, discharged, having been discharged
thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched
sent out, having been sent out, emitted, having been emitted
uttered, having been uttered
dismissed, having been dismissed, disregarded, having been disregarded
put to an end, having been put to an end

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	missus	missa	missum	missī	missae	missa
Genitive	missī	missae	missī	missōrum	missārum	missōrum
Dative	missō	missae	missō	missīs	missīs	missīs
Accusative	missum	missam	missum	missōs	missās	missa
Ablative	missō	missā	missō	missīs	missīs	missīs
Vocative	misse	missa	missum	missī	missae	missa

missus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
missus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
missus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
missus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to speak without circumlocution: missis ambagibus dicere
- correspondence: litterae missae et allatae
- (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est

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