English
intromit
Intromit comes from Latin intrōmittō ‘to send or let in or into’, and goes back to mittō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEintrōmittō‘to send or let in or into’
- Englishearliest quotation 1669intromit
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEintrōmittō‘to send or let in or into’
- Englishearliest quotation 1669intromit
Earliest quotation: 1669, William Holder: “Glass in the window […]intromits Light, without Cold.”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’
remission, unremitting, 18 more
through Old Latin mītō
permission, transmission, admission, submission, emission, omission, remit, commissariat, 20 more
through Latin mittō ‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go,…’
mission, mess, committee, admit, missile, commit, dismiss, premise, transmit, intermittent, emit, permissive, amit, commissary, remiss, commissar, missive, 34 more
Today it means
verb To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / intromit