Etymograph

English

committable

Committable comes from Latin committō ‘to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice’, from mittō ‘to send’, 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‘to send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommittō2‘to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500committen3‘to commit, dedicate something to’
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500committable4‘assignable, expendable’
  8. Englishtodaycommittable4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin committo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Middle English committen
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Middle English committable
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English committable

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méyth₂etiWiktionary, Latin committouncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*meitōWiktionary, Latin committo‘to put forth, put out’uncertain
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEmītōWiktionary, Latin committouncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittōWiktionary, Latin committo‘to send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommittōWiktionary, Middle English committen‘to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500committenWiktionary, Middle English committable‘to commit, dedicate something to’
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500committableWiktionary, English committable‘assignable, expendable’
  8. EnglishtodaycommittableWiktionary, English committable

Linked words

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

remission, unremitting, 19 more

through Old Latin mītō

permission, transmission, admission, submission, emission, omission, remit, 21 more

through Latin mittō ‘to send’

mission, mess, admit, missile, dismiss, premise, transmit, intermittent, emit, permissive, amit, omit, remiss, missive, commissariat, 33 more

through Latin committō ‘to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice’

commission, commissary, commissar, 8 more

Today it means

adj Capable of being committed.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “committable”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin committo, Middle English committen, Middle English committable. 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 / committable

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