English
submission
Submission comes from Latin submissio, from summittō ‘to place underneath’, and ultimately from mittō ‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go,…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsummittōas submitto‘to place underneath’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubmissio
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400soubmission
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500submissioun‘Legal submission to the decisions of someone else’
- Englishearliest quotation 2005submission
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 CEsummittōas submitto‘to place underneath’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubmissio
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400soubmission
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500submissioun‘Legal submission to the decisions of someone else’
- Englishearliest quotation 2005submission
Earliest quotation: 2005, Eddie Bravo, Jiu-jitsu Unleashed: “He used overhooks to block the punches, but he…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’
through Old Latin mītō
remit, remission, commissariat, 21 more
through Latin mittō ‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go,…’
committee, admit, mess, commit, commission, permission, transmission, transmit, premise, missile, dismiss, admission, intermittent, emit, omit, amit, emission, commissary, omission, commissar, permissive, remiss, missive, 28 more
Today it means
noun The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mittō / submission