Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo leave out or exclude. · To fail to perform. · To delete or remove; to strike. · To neglect or take no notice of.
At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.
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- Root classification mention*mey- (change)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionomittenenm
- Derivation mentionomittōla
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