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Admit

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to allow someone to enter, or to confess that something is true
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Stage 1 of 2
admittere
Latin · ancient
"to allow in"
to send to, to allow in, from ad- (to) and mittere (to send)
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Stage 2 of 2
admit
English · 1400s
"to allow entry, or to acknowledge something as true"
settled as the English word for allowing entry, or acknowledging something as true
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