Latin and Greek Roots of English Vocabulary: An Online Manual: Lesson 32 [mit(t)-mis(s)-]

June 27, 2010

Root

  

Original Meaning/

Usage Notes

English Derivatives

  

Vocabulary

  

(base) 

mit(t)-/mis(s)- [from Latin]

 

(verb)

to send

 

  

to admit [literally, ‘to send toward;’ to allow someone entrance to a place or group.]

emission [literally, ‘sending out;’ the discharge of a substance.]

mission [literally, ‘a sending;’ an assignment, such as a combat operation, given to a person or group of persons.]

missive

to submit

to transmit [literally, ‘to send across;’ to have something conveyed from one place to another.]

  

missive (noun) [literally, ‘something sent;’ a letter.]

to submit (verb) [literally, ‘to send up from under;’ to surrender to the power of someone else; to present for consideration by another.]

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