Where does “permit” come from?
permit (French) comes from French permettre, from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittere, from Latin permitto, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille.
permit (French): third-person singular past historic of permettre
Definitions
- third-person singular past historic of permettre
Ancestry of “permit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | permettre | to permit, to allow; to take the liberty of doing... |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |