English
mittent
Mittent comes from Latin mittens ‘sending, causing to go’, and goes back to mittō ‘to send’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittōas mittere, present participle‘to send’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittens‘sending, causing to go’
- Englishearliest quotation 1661mittent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittōas mittere, present participle‘to send’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittens‘sending, causing to go’
- Englishearliest quotation 1661mittent
Earliest quotation: 1661, Robert Lovell, Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.: “The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mey- ‘change’
mean, common, community, met, communication, minister, minute, meal, ministry, minor, communist, mutual, immune, mere, min, communicate, menu, compromise, communism, minus, ammunition, immunity, communal, mole, communion, municipality, mural, ammo, mayhem, noodle, moor, commune, remuneration, monolith, minstrel, meiosis, communiqué, mite, munition, mitosis, 71 more
through Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- ‘exchange, remove’
message, miss, mad, mutant, mute, madden, transmutation, misnomer, commutative, commutation, mutate, mutable, molt, moult, 15 more
through Latin mittō ‘to send’
commission, mission, mess, committee, admit, missile, commit, dismiss, premise, transmit, emit, commissary, permissive, omit, commissar, amit, remiss, missive, 33 more
Today it means
adj Emitting harmful humors.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / mittent