Etymograph

English

mittent

Mittent comes from Latin mittens ‘sending, causing to go’, from mittō ‘to send’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ‘change’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mey-1‘change’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meyth₂-1‘exchange, remove’uncertain
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmītō1by way of Proto-Italic *meitōuncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō2as mittere, present participle‘to send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittens2‘sending, causing to go’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1661mittent2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin mitto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English mittent
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1661, Robert Lovell, Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.: “The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mey-Wiktionary, Latin mitto‘change’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meyth₂-Wiktionary, Latin mitto‘exchange, remove’uncertain
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmītōWiktionary, Latin mittoby way of Proto-Italic *meitōuncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittōWiktionary, English mittentas mittere, present participle‘to send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittensWiktionary, English mittent‘sending, causing to go’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1661mittentWiktionary, English mittent. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1661, Robert Lovell, Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.: “The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *mey- ‘change’

mean, common, community, met, communication, minister, minute, meal, ministry, minor, communist, mutual, immune, mere, min, communicate, menu, compromise, communism, minus, ammunition, immunity, communal, mole, communion, municipality, mural, ammo, mayhem, noodle, moor, commune, remuneration, monolith, minstrel, meiosis, mite, munition, mitosis, mitra, 69 more

through Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- ‘exchange, remove’

message, miss, mad, mutant, mute, madden, transmutation, misnomer, commutative, commutation, mutate, mutable, molt, moult, 15 more

through Latin mittō ‘to send’

commission, mission, mess, committee, admit, missile, commit, dismiss, premise, transmit, emit, commissary, permissive, omit, commissar, amit, remiss, missive, 33 more

Today it means

adj Emitting harmful humors.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “mittent”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin mitto. 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 *mey- / mittent

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