English
remit
Remit comes from Latin remittō ‘to send, send back’, 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 CEremittōas remittere‘to send, send back’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500remitten‘to remit, forgive’
- Englishearliest quotation 1591remit
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 CEremittōas remittere‘to send, send back’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500remitten‘to remit, forgive’
- Englishearliest quotation 1591remit
Earliest quotation: 1591, Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.: “[…] he bad the Lyon be remitted Into his…”
Linked words
through Old Latin mītō
permission, transmission, admission, submission, emission, omission, commissariat, 20 more
through Latin mittō ‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go,…’
commission, mission, committee, mess, admit, missile, commit, dismiss, transmit, premise, intermittent, commissary, permissive, commissar, omit, amit, missive, 31 more
through Latin remittō ‘to send, send back’
through Middle English remitten ‘to remit, forgive’
Today it means
verb To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / remit