remission

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
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• General-American: /ɹəˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
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• rhymes with -ɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: R IY0 M IH1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English remissioun (“release from duty; freeing of captives; mercy, pardon, respite; forgiveness; release from or reduction of penances; reduction in intensity (of a quality, symptom, etc.); transfer of property, quitclaim; legal opinion or submission; reference, cross-reference”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman remission, remissione, remissioun, remissiun and Middle French, Old French remission (“forgiveness of sin; pardoning of an offence; postponement; cessation, suspension; diminishing or weakening of something; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”) (modern French rémission), and their etymon Late Latin remissiō (“forgiveness; pardon of sins”), Latin remissiō (“release; sending back; easing off, relaxing, softening; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”), from remittō (“to remit, send back; to diminish; to relax; to do without, forego”) + -siō. Remittō is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mittō (“to cause to go; to send; to discharge, emit, let go, release; to throw; to extend, reach out; to announce, tell; to produce, yield; to attend, escort, guide; to dismiss, disregard; to end”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth2- (“to change, exchange; to change places, go past”) or *(s)meyt- (“to throw”)). The English word is cognate with Catalan remissió, Italian remissioni, remissione (“remission; withdrawal of legal action; compliance, submission”), Old Occitan remessió, Portuguese remisson, remissão (“pardon; remission”), Spanish remisión (“remission”).

From re- + mission.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَفْو (ʕafw) — pardon of a sin
• Arabic: صَفْح (ṣafḥ) — pardon of a sin
• Aramaic: ܫܘܒܩܢܐ — pardon of a sin
• Armenian: թողություն (tʻoġutʻyun) — pardon of a sin
• Bulgarian: опрощение (oproštenie) — pardon of a sin
• Bulgarian: прошка (proška) — pardon of a sin
• Catalan: remissió — pardon of a sin
• Dutch: vergeving — pardon of a sin
• Finnish: anteeksianto — pardon of a sin
• Finnish: synninpäästö — pardon of a sin
• French: rémission — pardon of a sin
• French: pardon — pardon of a sin
• Galician: remisión — pardon of a sin
• German: Erlass — pardon of a sin
• German: Vergebung — pardon of a sin
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (aflageins) — pardon of a sin
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌻𐌴𐍄 (aflēt) — pardon of a sin
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍄 (fralēt) — pardon of a sin
• Greek: άφεση (áfesi) — pardon of a sin
• Ancient Greek: ἄφεσις (áphesis) — pardon of a sin
• Hungarian: megbocsátás — pardon of a sin
• Hungarian: bűnbocsánat — pardon of a sin
• Italian: remissione — pardon of a sin
• Latin: remissiō — pardon of a sin
• Latin: indulgentia — pardon of a sin
• Manx: maih — pardon of a sin
• Manx: maihyns — pardon of a sin
• Old English: forġifnes — pardon of a sin
• Old Norse: aflát — pardon of a sin
• Persian: عفو — pardon of a sin
• Portuguese: remissão — pardon of a sin
• Romanian: iertăciune — pardon of a sin
• Russian: индульгенция (indulʹgencija) — pardon of a sin
• Russian: отпуще́ние (otpuščénije) — pardon of a sin
• Spanish: remisión — pardon of a sin
• Swahili: ondoleo — pardon of a sin
• Thai: ใบบุญ (bai-bun) — pardon of a sin
• Yuma: pampachay — pardon of a sin
• Finnish: lyhennys — lessening of amount due
• Finnish: osasuoritus — lessening of amount due
• Finnish: osamaksu — lessening of amount due
• German: Nachlaß — lessening of amount due
• Greek: μείωση οφειλής (meíosi ofeilís) — lessening of amount due
• Ancient Greek: ᾰ̓́νεσῐς (ắnesĭs) — lessening of amount due
• Hungarian: csökkentés — lessening of amount due
• Hungarian: kedvezmény — lessening of amount due
• Hungarian: elengedés — lessening of amount due
• Hungarian: eltörlés — lessening of amount due
• Italian: remissione — lessening of amount due
• Russian: реми́ссия (remíssija) — lessening of amount due
• Spanish: remisión — lessening of amount due
• Ukrainian: ремі́сія (remísija) — lessening of amount due
• Bulgarian: смекчаване (smekčavane) — reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence
• German: Nachlaß — reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence
• Hungarian: enyhítés — reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence
• Old Irish: dín — reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence
• Old Irish: maithemnas — reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence
• Persian: عفو — reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence
• Chinese Mandarin: 緩解期 /缓解期 (huǎnjiěqī) — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Czech: remise — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Finnish: remissio — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Finnish: elpymävaihe — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Finnish: lieveneminen — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• German: Nachlassen — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• German: Remission — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• German: Abklingen — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• German: Rückbildung — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Hebrew: רמיסיה — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Hungarian: remisszió — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Hungarian: nyugalmi szakasz — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Hungarian: enyhülés — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Hungarian: panaszmentesség — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Hungarian: tünetmentesség — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Italian: remissione — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Italian: recesso — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Japanese: 緩解 (kankai) — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Latin: dīmissiō — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Māori: tangatanga — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Polish: remisja — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Portuguese: remissão — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Russian: реми́ссия (remíssija) — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Spanish: remisión — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• Ukrainian: ремі́сія (remísija) — abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease
• German: Zurücksendung — act of remitting, returning, or sending back
• German: Rücksendung — act of remitting, returning, or sending back
• Hungarian: visszaküldés — act of remitting, returning, or sending back
• Hungarian: visszautalás — act of remitting, returning, or sending back
• Hungarian: visszatérítés — act of remitting, returning, or sending back
• Finnish: siirtäminen — referral of a case back to another court
• German: Rückverweisung — referral of a case back to another court
• Hungarian: áttétel — referral of a case back to another court
• Italian: condonazione — referral of a case back to another court
• Italian: condono — referral of a case back to another court