English
dimission
Dimission comes from Latin dimissio ‘sending’, from dīmittō ‘to send away, send forth, send off, dismiss,…’, and ultimately from mittō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to cause to go, let go, send, send off, despatch’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdīmittō‘to send away, send forth, send off, dismiss, let go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdimissio‘sending’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1678dimission
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to cause to go, let go, send, send off, despatch’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdīmittō‘to send away, send forth, send off, dismiss, let go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdimissio‘sending’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1678dimission
Earliest quotation: a. 1678, Isaac Barrow, (please specify the chapter name or sermon number): “he is come, who is anointed to preach […]…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’
through Old Latin mītō
remit, remission, commissariat, 20 more
through Latin mittō ‘to cause to go, let go, send, send off, despatch’
committee, admit, mess, commit, commission, permission, transmission, transmit, premise, missile, admission, intermittent, submission, emit, omit, amit, emission, commissary, omission, commissar, permissive, remiss, missive, 27 more
through Latin dīmittō ‘to send away, send forth, send off, dismiss,…’
Today it means
noun permission to depart, or a dismissal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / dimission