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Permission comes from Latin permissiō ‘yielding, ceding, surrender’, from permittō ‘to let go, let loose’, and ultimately from mittō.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō¹‘let go’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpermittō²‘to let go’
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpermissiō³‘yielding’
4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600permission³
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500permision³
6. Englishearliest quotation 2003permission³

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin permitto
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin permissio
3. ³ Wiktionary, English permission
4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: “Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a…”.