Where does “permettre” come from?
permettre (French) comes from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittere, from Latin permitto, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
permettre (French): to permit, to allow; to take the liberty of doing...
Definitions
- to permit, to allow; to take the liberty of doing...
Ancestry of “permettre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | permettre | to permit, to allow |
| 2 | Latin | permittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | permitto | I let go, let loose; cast, hurl, throw; send... |
| 4 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |