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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1374|origins=la mitto}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /səbˈmɪt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English submitten, [[bor|la|submitto|alt=submittere|t=to lower, let down, put under, yield]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|sub-|t=under]] and [[m|la|mitto|alt=mittere|t=to let go, send]] (see [[mission]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To yield or surrender oneself: about 1374 in the OED,^(OED 1989) about 1380, in Chaucer's translation of Boethius, in Barnhart.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To bring someone under control is also from about 1374, and to surrender oneself to judgment or treatment from about 1430.^(OED 1989) The transitive sense, to refer something to another for judgment, is from the early 15th century in Etymonline;^(Etymonline) Barnhart and NODE date the sense of presenting for consideration from 1560 and the mid-16th century.^(Barnhart 1988)^(NODE 1998) The meaning to propose or declare as one's opinion, as a lawyer submits a point, is from 1818.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1374 – to yield oneself.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1430 – to submit to judgment or treatment.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1560 – to present for consideration.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1818 – to put forward as an opinion.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To yield to the [[authority]] or will of another; to [[surrender]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To subject to a condition, process or treatment.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To present or hand in for consideration or judgment: ''submit an application''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To put forward as an argument: ''I submit that the witness is lying''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[submittal]]

+ * [[submitter]]

+ * [[submittable]]

+ * [[submittingly]]

+ * [[presubmit]]

+ * [[unsubmitted]]

+ * [[resubmit]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[submission]]

+ * [[submissive]]

+ * [[mission]]

+ * [[admit]]

+ * [[permit]]

+ * [[commit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}