Etymology

submit

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Today it means: To yield or give way to another. Full definition →

Middle English submitten ← Latin submittere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsubmittere
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsubmitten
  3. English todaysubmit

From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.