Submitted

How to spell submitted

9 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce submitted

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does submitted mean?

1. verbPresented a document, form, or proposal to someone for their consideration or approval.
2. verbYielded to a stronger force, demand, or authority rather than resisting.

Submitted in a sentence

• She submitted her tax return three days before the deadline.

• After hours of negotiation the union submitted to the new terms.

• The contractor submitted a revised quote after the meeting.

• He reluctantly submitted to the doctor's strict regime.

Where does submitted come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This is the past tense of 'submit', which comes from the Latin verb submittere, a compound of sub, meaning 'under' or 'below', and mittere, meaning 'to send' or 'to let go'. The literal sense was therefore 'to send under', and from this grew both the idea of placing oneself under another's authority (to yield or surrender) and the later idea of placing a document or proposal before someone for their judgement. English took the word in during the late 1300s and 1400s, with the formal 'present for consideration' meaning becoming common in administrative and legal contexts. The same mittere root, meaning 'to send', powers a whole family of English words including 'mission', 'transmit', 'admit', and 'permit'. The spelling trap lives in the ending: the single t of 'submit' doubles to 'tt' before the suffix, because the stress falls on that final syllable, giving 'submitted'.

How the word is built

• sub- (under)
• mit (from Latin mittere, to send)
• -ted (past tense, with the final consonant doubled)