Translation
mission, assignment; mission (a religious or diplomatic body)
Word origin
From Latin missio, a sending, from mittere, to send. Everything a mission is grows from that one image: people are sent somewhere with a purpose, whether the purpose is preaching, diplomacy or a job of work.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- missio
- English cognates
- mission, missile, transmit, dismiss
Examples
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His mission is to find the truth.
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The church sent a mission to the island.
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We carried out our mission without any trouble.
The shape is a trap and it is worth spending a minute on. Esperanto really does have a prefix -, meaning wrongly or amiss, so i is to misunderstand and i is to misuse; it also has the correlative , something. Neither of them is in this word. is one indivisible Latin root, and reading it as "a wrong something" gets you nowhere near a diplomatic mission. This is the standard hazard of a language whose affixes are genuinely productive: you learn to see joins, and then you start seeing joins that are not there. The test is always whether the parts add up to the meaning, and here they do not.
Both senses are live. A can be the task you were sent to do, and it can be the body of people sent, which is why an embassy staff and a group of missionaries answer to the same noun. The person is a o.
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