Etymograph

English

remittee

From remit + -ee.

Formed from remit + -ee

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

Latin remittō ‘to send, send back’

Middle English remitten ‘to remit, forgive’

English remit

Today it means

noun The person to whom a remittance is sent

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “remittee”. 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.

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