Etymograph

English

pretransmit

From pre- + transmit.

Formed from pre- + transmit

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Latin mittō ‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go,…’

Latin trānsmittō

Middle English transmitten

English transmit

Today it means

verb To transmit in advance.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pretransmit”. 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 / pretransmit