English
demission
Demission comes from French démission ‘resignation’, from Latin dēmissiō ‘sinking, lowering’, and ultimately from mittō ‘send’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘send’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēmittō‘to send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēmissiō‘sinking, lowering’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentdémission‘resignation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1820demission
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘send’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēmittō‘to send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēmissiō‘sinking, lowering’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentdémission‘resignation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1820demission
Earliest quotation: 1820, Walter Scott, The Abbot. […]: “And that this demission of our royal authority may…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’
through Old Latin mītō
through Latin mittō ‘send’
committee, admit, mess, commit, commission, permission, transmission, transmit, missile, premise, dismiss, admission, intermittent, submission, omit, emit, amit, commissary, omission, commissar, permissive, remission, remiss, missive, 27 more
Today it means
noun Resignation; abdication.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / demission