Where does “admittee” come from?
admittee (English) comes from English admit, from Middle English admitten, from Old French admettre, from Latin admittere, from Latin admitto, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
admittee (English): One who is admitted
Definitions
- One who is admitted
Ancestry of “admittee”, step by step
admittee traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English admit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | admit | To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration |
| 2 | Middle English | admitten | — |
| 3 | Old French | admettre | to admit |
| 4 | Latin | admittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | admitto | I let in, admit; I perpetrate, commit |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |