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