Admisce

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To combine or mingle substances or elements into a unified mixture
2. To blend or merge distinct things together into a single composite whole
3. To join or mix different components together so they become incorporated as one

Etymology: "Admisce" is the Latin imperative, "mix in!", of the verb "admiscere," a compound of "ad-" ("to" or "toward") and "miscere" ("to mix"). Its singular command form is what a speaker would use to tell one person to add something to a mixture. The Latin verb's perfect and participle forms, "admiscui" and "admixtus," are the more useful clues to its English descendants. English took the verb's core through its participle. "Admix," meaning to mix one thing into another, is formed from the Latin participle "admixtus," and "admixture," a mixing or the thing mixed in, follows the same path. Both are learned formations that entered English in the early modern period, when writers were drawing heavily on Latin vocabulary. The "mix" in this family goes back to the Latin "miscere" itself. English "mix" was shaped by Middle English from the past participle "mixtus," so the Latin verb is the common ancestor of the whole group.