mit

send

Quick Summary

The English root mit comes from a Latin word that means ‘to send.’ Mit also shows up as miss in many words, so be on the lookout! Some common words from this root include emit, mission, and dismiss. So as not to omit any knowledge, we have submitted this post to explain it all.

On a Mission

The English root mit and its variant miss comes from a Latin word that means ‘to send.’

When a lightbulb emits light, what does it do? It simply ‘sends it out.’ If you are out on a mission, you’ve been ‘sent’ to do a task. If, however, you’ve been dismissed from that endeavor, you’ve been ‘sent away.’ If someone permits you to do something, you are ‘sent through’ to carry on.

If you are confused by why mit and miss mean the same thing, just notice what happens when you add suffixes to the following mit words. Permit becomes permission, likewise emit becomes emission. Don’t “miss” that mit becomes a miss!

Have you ever omitted anything from a test? If so, you have ‘sent it away.’ When you submit your answers, you ‘send them under’ for the inspection of the teacher. Hopefully all those tests that you have submitted as a student will allow you to be admitted, or ‘sent to’ a good college!

Are you committed to anyone? If so, you have ‘sent together’ your life with another. And if you promise to love that person then you’ve sent forth your faithful love.

Every comic book villain tries his best to contribute wholeheartedly to the demise of his chosen superhero, that is, to his permanent ‘sending away,’ or ‘death;’ the words superhero and demise don’t go together very well. Dr. Octopus could never ‘send away’ Spiderman, at least on a permanent basis!

Has anyone ever been falsely submissive to you, seeming to ‘send’ himself ‘beneath’ your command? Have you ever tried to surmise, or ‘send over’ a guess about why someone is acting the way he does? Or have aliens attempted to transmit or ‘send across’ thoughts to you? Enough tranmission, or ‘sending across’ of questions!

Submit the handy root mit to your memory, promise to remember it, and you will never have to admit to not knowing it again!

  1. emit: ‘send out’
  2. omit: ‘send away’
  3. dismiss: ‘send away’
  4. permit: ‘send through’
  5. submit: ‘send under’
  6. commit: ‘send together’
  7. demise: ‘sent away’
  8. submissive: ‘send beneath’
  9. surmise: ‘send over’

Usage

  • unremitting

    A thing or person that is unremitting is persistent and enduring in what is being done.

  • intermittent

    Something that happens on an intermittent basis happens in irregular intervals, stopping and starting at unpredictable times.

  • noncommittal

    If you are being noncommittal on an issue, you are not revealing what your opinion is and are being reserved on purpose.

  • committee

    A committee is a group of people that meets to talk about important things, figure out problems, and make choices.

  • commitment

    A commitment to something, such as a cause or belief, is a promise or agreement to stay true to it.

  • permit

    If someone permits you to do something, they allow you to do it.

  • transmit

    When something is transmitted, it is sent from one place to another, such as information being sent from one computer to another.

  • submit

    When you submit something, you give, send, or present it to someone for their review.

  • admit

    declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

  • admittance

    the right to enter

  • admittedly

    as acknowledged

  • commit

    perform an act, usually with a negative connotation

  • committal

    the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

  • committed

    bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude

  • emit

    expel (gases or odors)

  • manumit

    free from slavery or servitude

  • omit

    prevent from being included or considered or accepted

  • remit

    send (money) in payment

  • remittance

    a payment of money sent to a person in another place

  • unintermittently

    not happening in irregular intervals

Related Word Sums

Differentiated vocabulary for your students is just a click away.