admettre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French admettre, borrowed or adapted from classical Latin admittere, infinitive of admittō, based on French mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

admettre

1. to admit, to accept, to recognize
   • 1881, author uncertain, Lyon Médical‎, page 564:

     Les premiers auteurs qui ont étudié ce phénomène, Taupin, Piorry, Hourmann (Revue médicale française et étrangère, juillet 1839), qui lui a donné le nom d’autophonie, Hornemann, ont eu le tort, d’après l’auteur, de donner à ce signe une signification symptomatique trop étendue, et de créer des variétés purement artificielles, en admettant l’autophonie normale, ægophonique, bronchophonique, etc.

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2. (ditransitive) to admit (into), to accept (into) (a hospital or a university)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is admis, not *admettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with admi-, not *admetti-.

Related terms

Further reading

• “admettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• démettra

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed or adapted from Latin admitto, admittere, based on mettre, metre.

Verb

admettre

1. to admit (to permit to enter)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• → English: admit
• French: admettre