Etymograph

English

amission

Amission comes from Latin amissio ‘loss’, from āmittō ‘let go, lose’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méyth₂eti1uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*meitō1‘to put forth, put out’uncertain
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEmītō1uncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō1‘send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEāmittō2‘let go, lose’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamissio3‘loss’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1658amission3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin amitto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin amissio
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English amission
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne: “Why Geomancers do imitate the Quintuple Figure, in their…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méyth₂etiWiktionary, Latin amittouncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*meitōWiktionary, Latin amitto‘to put forth, put out’uncertain
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEmītōWiktionary, Latin amittouncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittōWiktionary, Latin amitto‘send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEāmittōWiktionary, Latin amissio‘let go, lose’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamissioWiktionary, English amission‘loss’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1658amissionWiktionary, English amission. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne: “Why Geomancers do imitate the Quintuple Figure, in their…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’

unremitting, 19 more

through Old Latin mītō

remit, remission, commissariat, 20 more

through Latin mittō ‘send’

committee, admit, mess, commit, commission, permission, transmission, transmit, premise, missile, dismiss, intermittent, admission, submission, emit, omit, emission, commissary, omission, commissar, permissive, remiss, missive, 27 more

through Latin āmittō ‘let go, lose’

amit

Today it means

noun deprivation; loss

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “amission”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin amitto, Latin amissio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti / amission

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