mit/miss

send

Spelled mit, miss · mittere, missus 'to send'

Latin mittere meant send: transmit sends across, emit sends out, and submit sends something under another's authority.

Words built from it

permit — to allow something to happen
per- (through) + mit (send)
submit — to yield to authority, or to hand in for review
sub- (under) + mit (send)
admit — to confess, or to allow entry
ad- (to) + mit (send)
transmit — to send from one place or person to another
trans- (across) + mit (send)
emit — to send out light, sound, or a substance
e- (out) + mit (send)
omit — to leave out or exclude
o- (away, aside) + mit (send)
commit — to pledge oneself fully to a course of action
com- (fully, together) + mit (send)

imitate — from Latin imitari 'to copy,' not mittere 'to send'
mitigate — from Latin mitis 'mild, soft' + agere; unrelated to mittere 'to send'.