Etymology

submission

sub·mis·sion
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Today it means: The act of submitting or yielding; surrender. Full definition →

Middle English submissioun ← Old French soubmission ← Latin submissio
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submission · noun1

  1. Latin · derived fromsubmissio
  2. Old French · derived fromsoubmission
  3. Middle English · inherited fromsubmissioun
  4. English todaysubmission

From Middle English submissioun, from Old French soubmission, from Latin submissio, from submitto.

submission · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*méyth₂eti
  9. Proto-Italic*meitō
  10. Old Latinmītō
  11. Latinmittō
  12. Latinmissiō
  13. Englishmission
  14. English todaysubmission

From sub- + mission.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.