Etymology

mittimus

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Today it means: A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody. Full definition →

Latin mittimus
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  1. Latin · derived frommittimus
  2. English todaymittimus

From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mittō (“send”).

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