Etymology

admit

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Today it means: To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration. Full definition →

Middle English admitten ← Old French admettre ← Latin admittō
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  1. Latin · derived fromadmittō“to allow entrance, inlet”
  2. Old French · derived fromadmettre
  3. Middle English · inherited fromadmitten
  4. English todayadmit

From Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- + mittere (“to send”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.