Etymograph

English

emission

Emission comes from Latin ēmissiō ‘sending forth’, and goes back to ēmittō ‘send out’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmittō‘send out’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmissiō‘sending forth’
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600émission
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1960emission

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmittō‘send out’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmissiō‘sending forth’
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600émission
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1960emission

Earliest quotation: 1960, R. C. Riley, The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future: “Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for…”

A compound of ex ‘from, out of’ + mittō ‘send’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex ‘from, out of’

Proto-Indo-European *mey- ‘change’

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- ‘exchange, remove’

Latin mītō

Latin mittō ‘send’

first attested First attested in 1607 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in 1607.

Linked words

through Latin ēmittō ‘send out’

emit, 3 more

Another origin of emission

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méyth₂etiuncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*meitō‘to put forth, put out’uncertain
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEmītōuncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmittō‘to send forth, emit, discharge’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmissiō‘a sending out’
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentémission
  8. Englishtodayemission

Today it means

noun Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin ēmittō / emission

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