submit
Pronunciation
- IPA: /səbˈmɪt/[1]
Etymology
It is Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere (“to lower, let down, put under, yield”),[2][3][4] from sub- (“under”) and mittere (“to let go, send”) (see mission).[2][3][5]
Earliest recorded meaning
To yield or surrender oneself: about 1374 in the OED,[6] about 1380, in Chaucer's translation of Boethius, in Barnhart.[2]
Semantic evolution
To bring someone under control is also from about 1374, and to surrender oneself to judgment or treatment from about 1430.[6] The transitive sense, to refer something to another for judgment, is from the early 15th century in Etymonline;[3] Barnhart and NODE date the sense of presenting for consideration from 1560 and the mid-16th century.[2][5] The meaning to propose or declare as one's opinion, as a lawyer submits a point, is from 1818.[3]
Timeline
- c. 1374 – to yield oneself.[6]
- c. 1430 – to submit to judgment or treatment.[6]
- 1560 – to present for consideration.[2]
- 1818 – to put forward as an opinion.[3]
Modern meaning
Verb
- To yield to the authority or will of another; to surrender.
- To subject to a condition, process or treatment.
- To present or hand in for consideration or judgment: submit an application.
- To put forward as an argument: I submit that the witness is lying.
Word family
- submittal
- submitter
- submittable
- submittingly
- presubmit
- unsubmitted
- resubmit
Related words
References
- ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d e Barnhart, Robert K. (1988), The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology
- ^ a b c d e Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
- ^ Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary (2024), online ed., Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster
- ^ a b Pearsall, Judy, ed. (1998), The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c d Simpson, J. A.; Weiner, E. S. C., eds. (1989), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press