ammettere Italian · revision 38371

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1252–1258, Storie de Troia e de Roma|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /amˈmet.te.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ammettere''' (first-person singular present ammétto, first-person singular past historic ammìsi, past participle ammésso, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old Italian forms with a Latinizing ⟨dm⟩, such as ''admettere'', are spellings of the humanists.^(LEI|1, 754)^(TLIO)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ DELI, Nocentini and DEI treat it as a learned word, [[bor|la|admittō|alt=admittere|t=to let in, admit; to grant]], with its stressed vowel taken from the native [[mettere]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|167) The Latin verb is a compound of [[m|la|ad|t=to, towards]] and [[m|la|mittō|t=to send]].^(DELI 1999)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020) The LEI and Wiktionary instead place the Italian verb among the inherited outcomes of the Latin verb, and DEI considers the old Sienese hunting sense “to set a dog on (game)” popular, matching the Latin sense “to send, drive against”.^(LEI|1, 754)^(Wiktionary)^(DEI|167) The Latin verb also survives in [[pro|ametre]], [[fro|ametre|t=to accuse]] and [[fr|admettre]].^(LEI|1, 754)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ De Vaan derives [[m|la|mittō]] from [[itc-pro|*meit-e/o-]], from a root [[ine-pro|*m(e)ith₂-|t=to exchange, remove]]: from “exchange” it came to mean “give” and then “let go, send”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is in the ''Storie de Troia e de Roma'', a Roman text of 1252–1258, with the sense “to let in (a place), to receive”.^(TLIO) Zingarelli dates the verb to 1258, and GRADIT gives Iacopone, before 1306, for the sense “to recognize as true”.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Old Italian had a wider set of senses: in law, “to give a hearing, allow to appear in court”;^(TLIO) “to admit to an office or to the members of a guild”;^(TLIO) “to turn towards, direct”; and in hunting, “to unleash or set on a dog”.^(TLIO) Poliziano still describes hunters of whom one ''già 'l suo ammette, chi 'l richiama'' (“one already looses his dog, one calls it back”).^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ The sense “to let enter” was common from Cavalca (before 1342), and the participle ''ammesso'', “accepted, judged fit”, from Giovanni Morelli (before 1444).^(DELI 1999) The concessive phrase ''ammesso che'' “granted that” is recorded in 1688, and ''esame d'ammissione'', the entrance exam, in 1865.^(DELI 1999) Today the main senses are “to let in or accept”, “to allow” (often in the negative: ''non ammettere repliche'') and “to acknowledge, own up to”.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1252–1258 – ''Storie de Troia e de Roma'' uses the verb for “to let in”.^(TLIO)

+ * Before 1306 – Iacopone uses it for “to recognize as true”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1588 – ''Ammissibile'' is recorded in Lionardo Salviati.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1635 – ''Ammissione'' appears.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1688 – The phrase ''ammesso che'' “granted that” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1965 – ''Ammettenza'', the electrical admittance, is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To let in, to [[m|en|admit]]; to accept into a group, or to declare someone eligible for an exam or course: ''Lo hanno ammesso al corso di laurea.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To allow, to [[m|en|tolerate]]: ''Il regolamento non ammette eccezioni.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|acknowledge]] as true, to own up to: ''Ha ammesso di aver sbagliato i conti.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To suppose, assume for the sake of argument: ''Ammettiamo che il treno arrivi in orario.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # ''(obsolete)'' To set dogs on game in hunting.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ammesso]]

+ * [[ammissione]]

+ * [[ammissibile]]

+ * [[ammissibilità]]

+ * [[inammissibile]]

+ * [[ammettenza]]

+ * [[riammettere]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mettere]]

+ * [[la|admitto]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}