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Emit

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to give off or send out light, sound, gas, or other matter
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Stage 1 of 2
emittere
Latin · ancient
"to send out"
to send out, from ex- (out) and mittere (to send)
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Stage 2 of 2
emit
English · 1620s
"to send out light, sound, or other matter"
settled as the English word for sending out light, sound, gas, or other matter
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