Where does “permit” come from?
Permit comes from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittere meaning "to let through," composed of Latin per- "through" and a root from Proto-Indo-European mey- "to change or exchange."
permit (English): To allow to happen, to give permission for; To...
Definitions
- To allow to happen, to give permission for; To...
Ancestry of “permit”, step by step
permit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English permitten
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | permitten | — |
| 2 | Middle French | permettre | to permit, to allow |
| 3 | Latin | permittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | permitto | I let go, let loose; cast, hurl, throw; send... |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |