Where does “permitten” come from?
permitten (Middle English) 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.
Ancestry of “permitten”, 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 |