submitv.

Etymology: Partly < (i) Anglo-Norman submittre, Anglo-Norman and Middle French submettre, variants of suzmettre (see below), and partly < their ultimate etymon (ii) classical Latin submittere (also summittere) to allow to grow, to raise, rear, to put forth, to raise, elevate, to send by way of assistance, to send secretly, to bring to a lower level, to drop, lower, to lay down, to place under or beneath, (of the voice) to lower, to abate, to moderate, to reduce, diminish, to make subject or subordinate, (of circumstances) to crush, to subject, expose (to), (reflexive) to bow down, surrender, to lower oneself, condescend, in post-classical Latin also to propose (14th cent. in a British source) < sub- sub- prefix + mittere to send, put (see mission n.). Anglo-Norman submittre , Anglo-Norman and Middle French submettre show classicizing alterations of Anglo-Norman suzmettre , souzmettre , sumettre , etc., Anglo-Norman and Middle French soubmettre , soubzmettre , soumettre , Middle French sousmettre (French soumettre ) to make subject or subordinate (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to oppress (c1275 or earlier), to make (one's argument) dependent on (1226 in Old French), to state in pleading a legal case (a1304 or earlier), to put under the protection of (a1362), (reflexive) to subject oneself to (mid 12th cent. in Old French), to put oneself under the authority or jurisdiction of (mid 14th cent.). Compare Old Occitan sotzmetre (13th cent. in an isolated attestation), sobmetre (14th cent.), Spanish someter (13th cent.), Portuguese †someter (14th cent.), submeter (17th cent.), Italian sommettere (14th cent.; also sottomettere (late 13th cent.)). Compare summit v.¹