promissio

Latin > English

promissio promissionis N F :: promise; act/instance of promising; guarantee that proof will come (rhetoric)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

prōmissĭo: ōnis f. promitto.
I In gen., a promising, promise (class. only in sing.; prop. the act of promising; cf. promissum, the thing promised): provinciae, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 4: auxilii, id. Fam. 4, 13, 1: scelerum, id. Phil. 8, 3, 10; cf. Don. Ter. And. 2, 3, 27.—
II In partic., rhet. t. t., a promising: tum promissio, si audierint, probaturos, Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339; 3, 53, 205.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

prōmissĭō,¹⁴ ōnis, f. (promitto), promesse : Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 1 || [fig. de rhét.] : Cic. de Or. 3, 205.

Latin > German (Georges)

prōmissio, ōnis, f. (promitto), die Versprechung, Verheißung, I) im allg.: pr. cauta, Apul. met. 10, 4: stulta, Vulg. eccl. 5, 3: pr. tua, Vulg. psalm. 55, 9: similis, Cael. Aur. de morb. chron. 5, 10, 117. – m. subj. Genet., Pamphili, Donat Ter. Andr. 1, 5, 46: alcis nutus et pr., Eumen. pro rest. schol. 15, 3: fallaciosae mulieris, Apul. met. 8, 10: patris, Vulg. act. apost. 1, 2. – m. obj. Genet., pr. auxilii, Cic. ep. 4, 13, 1: provinciae, Cic. ad Att. 8, 9, 4: scelerum, Cic. Phil. 8, 10: deprecati belli, Iustin. 8, 5, 4. – Plur., Apul. met. 5, 18. Vulg. sap. 12, 21; Sirach 24, 33 u.a.: certae promissiones, Cassiod. in psalm. 1. (tom. 2. p. 11, b ed. Garet): promissiones dei factae ad Abraham, Augustin. de civ. dei 16, 16 in. – II) insbes., als rhet. t. t. = ὑπόσχεσις, das Versprechen, die Verheißung, Cic. de or. 2, 339 u. 3, 205. Quint. 9, 1, 32 u. 9, 2, 2.